funk

The U.S. dollar was hardly out of its latest funk, even though rising Treasury yields tend to drag the greenback higher.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

The rest of the team is in a much worse funk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

The group’s self-titled, guitar-drenched first album met a desire for hard rock when many popular artists were pivoting to disco and funk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Red pepper flakes and everything bagel seasoning cover the remaining territory — heat, funk, nuttiness, crunch — in a few economical shakes.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

And after aimlessly wandering the Glade to hear the other Runners’ stories, he snapped out of his funk.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.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

Berserk and beautiful: classical waltz music funked up for dancing by rock's baddest bad boy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Great Powers plainly funked when Germany was permitted to dismember Czechoslovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had had no idea that he would have, so to speak, "funked" it so.

From The Wooden Horse by Sir Hugh Walpole

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

So that, in a little while, I had got back a bit to my normal, and felt steady enough to go through with the business without any more funking.

From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson