as in cowards
a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger
he may be a strong, athletic guy, but he's a real funk when it comes to donating blood
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Noun
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But Democrats look like cowards for fleeing the state.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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RoboBallet avoids this trap by learning general coordination rules rather than memorising specific cases.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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The first season of The Office was particularly unpleasant at times, with some of Michael’s most appalling behavior, and The Paper avoids this almost entirely.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Bear swims to the exit, and shakes off his wet fur.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Uranus’ retrograde in your zone of foundations and roots shakes you to your core!—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Laugh is the kind of rap mastery that shuns maximalism for pristine, unadorned poetics.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
29 Aug. 2025
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Instead of a tale of entrapment or escape, Ruth is a story about how a woman full of longing can operate inside a collective that shuns the very notion of wanting.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Pete escapes into the snowy woods, but Lambert tracks him down and ties him up.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Sep. 2025
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Kafka always escapes interpretation.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Romvari often eschews traditional point-of-view shots, and cinematographer Maya Bankovic complements that decision by favoring a long-lens shooting style with occasional zooms.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
13 Aug. 2025
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One design is a turbine that eschews the pinwheel-like blades of a traditional windmill; instead it is shaped like an upended eggbeater, with both ends of each curved blade attached to a central pole.—
You Xiaoying,
Scientific American,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Funks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funks. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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