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gunk

[guhngk] / gʌŋk /














NOUN
soot
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To deal with any remaining sticky or dried-on gunk, I do a simple two-pass wipe-down.

From Salon May 5, 2026

Bringing it all to a head: a civil trial began last week in a federal court where Elon Musk was trying to oust Altman, his former partner, and gunk up OpenAI’s going-public ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

The drugs attack a sticky gunk – called beta amyloid – that builds up in the spaces between brain cells in Alzheimer's disease.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

And now, to fuel the war effort, the big smokestacks on those big oil refineries were sending out big black plumes of gunk — and that had to be creating the smog, right?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

The least she could do for him was clean the gunk off the table.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies




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