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junky

[juhng-kee] / ˈdʒʌŋ ki /














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Through October, the junky small-company category rallied by 256% versus just 29% for those with quality characteristics.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 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

Even the artificial-intelligence trade, which has been producing profits, may be more junky than it seems.

From Barron's Oct. 23, 2025

Of course, we can try once again to make the arguments about why this test should not be used and how junky the science behind it is.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2025

“We’ll have Nerf-gun parties, get a gigantic TV, and stock the kitchen with junky stuff that our moms never buy. For kids only.”

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Asking college students why they bet on sports is like asking adrenaline junkies why they jump out of airplanes.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

It could have been for any other market research exercise, for washing powder or water bills, rather than anything to do with Westminster - so it wasn't a gathering of political junkies.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2025

Many Criterion junkies have imagined what it would be like to hang out in that closet — to be enveloped in that cozy cocoon of great movies.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2025

"Democracy" is a word that may sound soaring to political junkies, but feels bureaucratic and frankly bloodless to many others.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2024

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

Momentarily terrifying, they encouraged investors to “buy the dip” quickly and recklessly—the junkier the stocks, the better.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

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

Reynolds is an ingratiating actor who, because he's fun to watch, can save even the junkiest movie.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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




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