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
He references “Wonder Man’s” most emotional scene, when Simon is in his junky Toyota Camry with Trevor, pondering quitting acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
He’d assumed it would be as junky as the yard.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
But Tuesday’s primary could the test the patience of even the most-knowing political junkies as some of the highest profile races, including California governor and L.A. mayor, remain tight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Everything from diabetes to schizophrenia, he claims, is caused by Americans being junk food junkies.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
But when it was bought by Expedia and shut down in 2017, travel junkies went looking for a suitable replacement and couldn’t find one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 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
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
Reynolds is an ingratiating actor who, because he's fun to watch, can save even the junkiest movie.
From Time Magazine Archive
It matches the yield on all but the junkiest junk bonds and, if you're careful, entails a lot less risk.
From Time Magazine Archive
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