wacky
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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
With the 48th edition of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta returning from 7-9 August, here is a roundup of some of the most wacky shapes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Alan Greenspan’s legacy is alive and well, JPMorgan’s line of succession becomes foggier, and SoftBank releases another wacky PowerPoint.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
Assuming that S&P Dow Jones Indices doesn’t do anything wacky, SpaceX might go into the index at an initial weight of approximately 0.14%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
“Wonder what kind of wacky games we can lose today.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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
With its upstairs-downstairs dynamic — the “us” and “them” of it is explicitly laid out — large cast and grand beehive setting, it suggests a wackier contemporary American “Gosford Park.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
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
The sequel gets wackier, as the Smooth Moves moving team expands the business into entirely new dimensions and brings on new recruits like a sneakerhead — who literally has a sneaker for a head.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 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
On Sunday, one of the UK's wackiest races returns, bringing some Scandinavian fun to the Surrey sporting scene.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Some of the wackiest ideas will never see the light of day, but the best might end up in one of our tech gift guides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
An exhibit dedicated to the sport’s wackiest team, the Savannah Bananas, will open Friday at the hallowed shrine in Cooperstown, New York.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
“It was just like, that is the wackiest thing I’ve ever seen,” he continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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
