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It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

“God it’s cold and dank here! Wish I was still a pet in your family!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

More than 1.4 million people visit each year, walking through the dank cell blocks and taking in exhibits on the Native American occupation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

Jesper complained, peering into the dank main room.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Typically, it takes samples from early-90s hip-hop and deploys distorting techniques such as chopped and screwed – the song-stretching fad that peaked in 2009 – to create a darker, danker sound.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2017

Most discussions about human differences remain stuck in myth, pseudo-science and the danker parts of the psyche.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same sort of fungi can still be found sprouting palely in the darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

In his later speculations, this author conceives that the termination ish forms the first degree of comparison; as, "Imperfect, dankish," Pos. dank, Comp. danker, Superl. dankest.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

During the dankest days of the pandemic lockdowns, Dana Loesch needed something to occupy herself.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021

It simply takes this premise to its dankest and most outrageous ends, yielding a version of politics that is, in its way, darker than anything you see on “House of Cards.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2017

The grimmest walk-up and the dankest trailer can be rendered more livable by the introduction of tinkling water, wild pachanga music, or soothing birdsong.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2015

Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have been together for more than a decade and have slowly climbed from the dirtiest, dankest of basements and clubs to headline theaters and, now, stadiums.

From Chicago Tribune ● Sep. 19, 2014

They clambered to the highest and meanest garrets, and descended to the lowest, darkest and dankest cellars, to administer to the wants of the destitute, the sick, and the dying.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement