funky
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Cowell’s “Abstrusions,” which opens both releases, was a compact and funky three minutes and 38 seconds on the original.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In her latest album, “The Boutique,” Zinadelphia is a funky jazz, indie-pop goddess.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
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
Funky, funky, funky, we sing again and again until the word is just a sound not connected to anything good or bad right or wrong.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
While the exterior features a traditional red brick facade, the interior follows a much funkier black-and-white theme throughout the main living spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The creamier, funkier and warmer the brie, the better.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
It’s a return to their powers, now funkier than ever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
But this is a looser, funkier show than its inspiration, puncturing the occasionally stifling solemnity of “The Walking Dead” with good old-fashioned B-movie gags and thrills.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
He released his latest track Heatwave in February, which his label describes as a "piano house" with "funkier UK" influences.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2022
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 wasn’t helping me to express the loudness, to be the funkiest, to embody the story,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Try to find an ensemble, from the staunchest to the funkiest, that hasn’t gotten into the act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
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
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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