funky
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For those unfamiliar with these funky flora, be warned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The singer also made good use out of her space bedrooms, with one utilized as a music room, complete with a funky patterned couch, a keyboard, and a drum kit.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
People love ramps for their distinctive flavor profile—savory, funky, intense—but also their versatility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Other humanoid robots come to life and show off their kung-fu or funky dance moves.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Then the woman in the funky glasses walks away from her true love in the suede shirt at computer terminal #3.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
While the exterior features a very traditional red brick facade, the interior follows a much funkier black-and-white theme that carries throughout the majority of the main living spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
It’s a return to their powers, now funkier than ever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
Cheeses made from that particular strain, however, would be slightly funkier and vary in appearance.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024
When it came to power in 2021, after 16 years of Angela Merkel's conservative-led government, the new coalition promised a younger, funkier, more liberal Germany.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2023
They run the gamut from those soft and mild from Cobscook Bay, to funkier, firmer, salty adductors from Little Machias Bay.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
The funkiest thing a “radioactive shrimp” would do—that is, if you put a radiation sensor over such a crustacean, says Pillai—is beep.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025
It was arguably the funkiest kids show in history; “Sesame Street” could be pretty funky, it’s true, but it never put Questlove, Bootsy Collins, Biz Markie, Mark Mothersbaugh and Erykah Badu onstage together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
Cellphone’s Dead may have Beck’s funkiest bassline, but for brute force, Devil’s Haircut wins with its insistent three-note riff copied from I Can Only Give You Everything by the 60s Northern Irish rockers Them.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
Los Angeles’ funkiest rapper/singer/drummer is riding high on the heels of two new albums infusing contemporary West Coast hip-hop with vintage sunny-day soul — with April’s “Ventura” faring considerably better than the uneven “Oxnard.”
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019
Morality is mostly funk, and I think you’re the funkiest man I ever came across in my travels.
From Within the Tides by Conrad, Joseph
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