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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

Such minor miracles are everywhere in the history of horror, which has always been something of cinema’s dank basement, and its most fertile ground for low-fi creativity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

A dank, earthy odor hung in the air, as if mounds of fresh pencil shavings had been scattered over a newly excavated farm plot.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025

The honeymoon suite was dank and cold and dirty brown.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

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

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

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

Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman’s eye.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019

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

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

I haven’t seen every stinker ever produced, so I can’t categorically confirm that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark belongs in the dankest subbasement of the American musical theater.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2013

Preaching the dankest Grundyism and upholding the rank customs of our trade—you who are so cruel hard upon the customs of the publishers?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson