wacky
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In “The Rivals of Amziah King,” the moment with the queen bee is when the film transitions from its wild, wacky — but intentional — world-building into a sleek Southern noir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
With the 48th edition of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta returning from 7-9 August, here is a roundup of some of the most wacky shapes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Alan Greenspan’s legacy is alive and well, JPMorgan’s line of succession becomes foggier, and SoftBank releases another wacky PowerPoint.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
That means aggressively wacky aliens and self-mocking banter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
They spent several quiet minutes wandering around the room, taking in all the wacky games that people used to play.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
At their peak, bubbles feature IPOs of outfits with much wackier marketing pitches than a name change to something like “AI-squared.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
With its upstairs-downstairs dynamic — the “us” and “them” of it is explicitly laid out — large cast and grand beehive setting, it suggests a wackier contemporary American “Gosford Park.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
Welcome to the wackier side of geoengineering - deliberately intervening in the Earth's climate system to try to counteract the damage we have done to it.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
This improbable story — a team that trailed in the final minutes of an elimination game of the play-in tournament somehow getting to the NBA Finals — now has an even wackier plot twist.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
It celebrated the wackier moments of the usually strait-laced Trebek, showing him verbally sparring with contestants and arm-wrestling with one.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2021
On Sunday, one of the UK's wackiest races returns, bringing some Scandinavian fun to the Surrey sporting scene.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Freddie Freeman slammed a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the 18th, putting the finishing touch on one of the weirdest, wackiest, most mind-numbing contests ever staged in the Fall Classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The coaches’ last meeting, in 2019, resulted in one of the wackiest games in Pac-12 history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
Camp was the theme in 2019, producing what is considered one of the wackiest displays of dress by the celebrity crowd.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
I think the boom of your wackiest, ultra-specific food designs during COVID, a time when we were all searching for that sort of connectivity, makes so much sense.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
