junky
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"In other words, junky processing may harm your gut in ways that ripple up to your brain."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Russell 2000’s simplicity, being based only on size, causes it to include lots of junky companies—great in a bull market but less-so over the long term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, “workslop” reports that waste coworkers’ time — and lots of talking cats.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Investors should still steer clear of the most junky corporate bonds, said Hoxha, who is Newton’s head of fixed income.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Other than a couple of junky things that I probably should have put in the throwaway pile, we sell it all.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Plus, banks are cracking down on credit-card points junkies, and France became the poster child for debt woes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Everything from diabetes to schizophrenia, he claims, is caused by Americans being junk food junkies.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
After all, for some of us L.A. crime movie junkies, off-brand “Heat” is better than no “Heat” at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
So behold the Office of Personnel Management’s new federal workforce data portal—arguably Washington’s first success in providing useful information to average citizens and policy junkies alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
“Then the portfolio gets a little junkier and if you keep doing that pretty soon the portfolio is upside down,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
So, yes, junk food is even junkier than previously thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The director Robert Schwentke, whose credits include “Flightplan” and junkier diversions like “R.I.P.D.,” takes on this franchise with generic competence.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
He lays down simplistic but steady disco drumming, beautifully squelchy old synthesizer tones and a junkier version of the guitar-scratching perfected by James Brown’s old guitarist, Jimmy Nolen.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
Some are just slightly less junkier version of sugar-loaded snacks, but others are worth trying.
From Time Magazine Archive
The makes, the models, the mufflers that could furnish even the junkiest car with an impressive sound — how every detail felt like a secret he was revealing just to me, his only child.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
“It’s the escalating hype surrounding the release of the junkiest stuff, the willingness of the press to play along, the lust to be ‘No. 1 in America’ on thousands of screens.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
“Jonathan Demme is the American cinema’s king of amusing artifacts: blinding bric-a-brac, the junkiest of jewelry, costumes so frightening they take your breath away,” Ms. Maslin wrote.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
"These were the junkiest of the junk bonds, yet investors who asked specific questions about them were lied to," says New York Attorney General Robert Abrams.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reynolds is an ingratiating actor who, because he's fun to watch, can save even the junkiest movie.
From Time Magazine Archive
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