funky
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The area felt fun and funky, but I was only passing through, determined to get to my next destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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
We didn’t shower, just got on the bus smelling funky and feeling worse.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
While the exterior features a very traditional red brick façade, the interior follows a much funkier black-and-white theme that carries throughout the majority of the main living spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Cheese: Parmigiano-Reggiano is classic, but try Manchego or Pecorino for a funkier edge.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
It’s a return to their powers, now funkier than ever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 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
When the songs were … funkier — and I use that designation extremely loosely — his performance felt more full.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
Robertson’s lyrics are teasingly playful but they’re nearly overshadowed by a lithe clavinet part by Hudson that places the song among the funkiest records by a rock band in the late 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
Owner Scott Behrens, who’s helmed one of Seattle’s funkiest music spaces for the past 15 years, had been trying to sell the Lo-Fi and even had a buyer lined up.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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
When your tantrum ended, you left us one of your funkiest Final Fours: the gritty kingdom of Michigan State plus three programs from the vast proletarian division — Texas Tech, Virginia and Auburn.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 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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