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Recent Examples of junker
The original — which helped make the show’s title into a universal shorthand for junker rejuvenation — aired on MTV for six seasons from 2004-2007.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 May 2024
Scrap Car Comparison scraps thousands of cars every year, but this year has decided to put them to good use by naming those junkers after your ex.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2024
It’s been on the airwaves for about 50 years — almost as long as California has had its pioneering Lemon Law protecting us from getting stuck with junkers.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
—Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
An episode might follow someone who had long suffered driving an unreliable, junker of a car.
—New York Times, 11 July 2022
The pair work together to repair a junker training robot to get ring-ready, while simultaneously mending their relationship.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 May 2024
Scrap Car Comparison scraps thousands of cars every year, but this year has decided to put them to good use by naming those junkers after your ex.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2024
It’s been on the airwaves for about 50 years — almost as long as California has had its pioneering Lemon Law protecting us from getting stuck with junkers.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
The cast from Bram Stoker’s novel are transposed to space junkers, who come across the derelict spaceship Demeter.
—Vulture, 13 Aug. 2023
An episode might follow someone who had long suffered driving an unreliable, junker of a car.
—New York Times, 11 July 2022
The pair work together to repair a junker training robot to get ring-ready, while simultaneously mending their relationship.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junker
crate
Noun
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Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.—
Michael Jerome Plunkett
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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The TikTok clip shows the guilty-looking canine sitting in his crate after a moment of destructive chewing.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Junker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junker. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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