as in dirt
foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something
I have to wash my hands; I got gunk all over them somehow
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Recent Examples of gunk
Wash away stacks of gunk, grime and sticky messes with ease.
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Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Especially hard-water deposits, residue, and other gunk that can build up over time in your coffee maker.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
The brush for cleaning grout gets into all those mildewy crevices in your bathroom, while the round brushes do a great job cleaning toothpaste and gunk around the faucets and in the sink.
—Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 3 Apr. 2025
During your weekly fridge clear-out and restock, wipe down shelves and drawers, removing gunk and crumbs to keep the inside fresh.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Mar. 2025
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Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Especially hard-water deposits, residue, and other gunk that can build up over time in your coffee maker.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
The brush for cleaning grout gets into all those mildewy crevices in your bathroom, while the round brushes do a great job cleaning toothpaste and gunk around the faucets and in the sink.
—Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 3 Apr. 2025
During your weekly fridge clear-out and restock, wipe down shelves and drawers, removing gunk and crumbs to keep the inside fresh.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunk
Noun
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The crowd was filled with men and women whose daily jobs leave them with dirt under their nails and pride in their chests because of their impact on everyone’s lives.—
Salena Zito,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Alcaraz improved to 21-1 on clay this year, winning titles on the dirt in Rome — beating Sinner in the final after the Italian returned from his doping ban — and Monte Carlo.—
Jerome Pugmire,
Baltimore Sun,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Given her past record of almost never getting into the muck of rumors around her personal life, the latter speculations make better sense.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Justin has been dragged into the muck since March 2024, when he was briefly detained at his father’s L.A. mansion the day of the feds’ raid (the rap star’s Star Island mansion got hit up by Homeland Security, too).—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — for the first time ever, they could be allowed to do it over American soil.—
Edward Russell,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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These houses had three types: homes with steps along the wall or that form a passageway, homes built into two levels with higher places with scorched soil for cooking areas and lower spaces for living, and flat-bottomed homes used as living spaces.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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Add the bark powder, which turns into DMT-laden sludge.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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The report never even mentioned California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has refused to ask the federal government to declare the sewage onslaught to be a national emergency despite being unanimously urged to do so by the state Legislature.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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The testing efforts are part of a proactive sewage monitoring project between SacSewer and Stanford University checking for various viral markers.—
Rebecca-Ann Jattan,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2025
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This isn't just unsanitary—the buildup of crud could eventually interfere with your mixer's moving parts.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 May 2025
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This entry’s crud, on the other hand, is piled digitally in an INBOX.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Allegiance The Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, regroups on the garbage planet Anoat, while Finn and Poe go on a secret mission to retrieve a weapons cache to increase their dwindling arsenal.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
25 May 2025
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Duluth, Minnesota, has installed effective and unobtrusive signs at each beach entrance next to a garbage receptacle.—
John Michael Pierobon,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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“Gunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunk. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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