wacky
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"It's pretty easy to go viral for doing something weird and wacky, but that doesn't always advance the objectives of your campaign."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Bananas have become a national phenomenon, selling out stadiums around the country with their wacky antics, fast-paced games and boundary-pushing rules explicitly designed to challenge the sport’s stodgy reputation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
It stars Matthew Rhys as a wacky New England mayor who is trying to boost tourism on his island, which residents believe is haunted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Savant means that my math skills are far beyond normal, and acquired means I wasn’t born with this wacky ability.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
At their peak, bubbles feature IPOs of outfits with much wackier marketing pitches than a name change to something like “AI-squared.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Welcome to the wackier side of geoengineering - deliberately intervening in the Earth's climate system to try to counteract the damage we have done to it.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
Cahn: The wackier it is, the more people are like, “Oh, it’s a real relationship.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
This improbable story — a team that trailed in the final minutes of an elimination game of the play-in tournament somehow getting to the NBA Finals — now has an even wackier plot twist.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
It celebrated the wackier moments of the usually strait-laced Trebek, showing him verbally sparring with contestants and arm-wrestling with one.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2021
On Sunday, one of the UK's wackiest races returns, bringing some Scandinavian fun to the Surrey sporting scene.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Freddie Freeman slammed a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the 18th, putting the finishing touch on one of the weirdest, wackiest, most mind-numbing contests ever staged in the Fall Classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The coaches’ last meeting, in 2019, resulted in one of the wackiest games in Pac-12 history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
I think the boom of your wackiest, ultra-specific food designs during COVID, a time when we were all searching for that sort of connectivity, makes so much sense.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
Season after season, gasoline-guzzling couriers crisscross Paris to personally deliver elaborate, often handmade, show invites, as top houses vie for the wackiest or most imaginative idea.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
