funk
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The first of their three late-career triumphs, “A Bigger Bang” brings attitude, funk, dirty rockers and dreamy ballads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Other acts performing on Friday include indie rock band Wolf Alice, veteran funk star Nile Rodgers and psychedelic rock band the Beta Band, who reformed last year after more than two decades away.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
The music wasn’t influenced by soul, funk or even disco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Listening stations and touchscreens allow visitors to navigate the full range of styles and eras, although there are notable omissions such as disco, funk, house and techno.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
I asked, taking the attention off my funk.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
“We played offense tonight, and sometimes you’ve got to do that to get out of funks, and I was real happy with how we executed.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023
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
He felt deeply responsible for Eric, who could be cheerfully upbeat but could also grow morose and withdrawn and sometimes would sink into deep funks, not talking for days.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
I should have jeered at myself ever afterwards: "So you funked it, you funked it, you funked the real thing!"
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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
Aha, he is funking, he is running away.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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