funk
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Jackson, born in New York, got his start in music singing gospel before moving to California to perform with the ’70s funk band Mystic Merlin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
That affects everything from housing, already in a funk, to the AI build-out, currently in whatever the opposite of a funk is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Acts can span from bluegrass to blues, folk to funk, salsa to soul, and everything in between.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The smart money will be on Root to come out of his funk, rather than this being the start of a late-career decline.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
I’m in a funk the whole way to school.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Psychiatrists and psychologists talk to us, shock us and above all, medicate us to lift us from our funks.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 24, 2022
He watched two teammates bust out of funks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
Sometimes, cooking funks arrive without warning — and they don't care whether you have a pantry full of groceries, or are having friends over in two hours, or are hungry literally right now.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021
And hope that the learning curve hastens for the likes of Kelenic and White, while the struggling veterans find a way out of their collective funks.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2021
He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
The reason was obvious, although Bach didn’t quite put it in these terms: the Games needed to be funked up for a younger generation.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2017
Gospel-infused smokin' swamp pop, clearly on-topic and funked up by Spooner Oldham's spiky, staccato keyboard flourishes.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2011
At this crux, his tears accomplished what his nerve funked.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Great Powers plainly funked when Germany was permitted to dismember Czechoslovakia.
From Time Magazine Archive
And they funked a fight with that maelstrom's might, And a Voice, for the second time, loudly spake, "Will no man dive for Ould Oireland's sake?"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various
After funking up Marymoor Park with an ace band in 2019, the 81-year-old progressive jazz great’s taking it inside to the Paramount Theatre’s more acoustically advanced surroundings.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Herbie Hancock played “Watermelon Man” in all of its Blue Note piano splendor before funking it up with a handheld synthesizer.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2016
"Everybody funking and don't know how," sang Clinton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2016
The troubadour goes optimistic in the title track before funking out on “Walking Like a Man” and the bluegrass-influenced “Roses in the Rain.”
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2015
In fact, dear, I thought if I waited I should have time to make certain of funking it, so I hid there, too.
From Man and Maid by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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