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Recent Examples of junky The restaurant only has one Formica table in a junky storage area by the drink fountain. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2025 Master The Art Of Crafting Strong Prompts Strong prompts separate junky AI outputs from the innovative use of AI tools. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025 Blomkamp can’t quite recapture the explosive propulsion of his debut feature, but Damon is a sturdy hero, and the director creates a convincingly junky future. Jason Bailey, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 But the film is a total mess, start to finish: a mishmash of It and some military-thriller, monster-movie clichés culminating in a junky special-effects ending that barely makes sense. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025 Windows Search includes a bunch of extra graphics and junky newsfeed items and apps by default. Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025 But the visual jokes are dense and the look works for the setting and comedic ethos, reflecting the junky tourist-trap aesthetic that Mumolo and Wiig celebrate. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Otherwise most of your collection is fair game to display, sans a junky corporate logo or a plastic makeup. Camille Freestone, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junky
Adjective
  • The San Francisco 49ers are running themselves right out of games with all these worthless carries by Christian McCaffrey.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But these glasses are worthless without a mobile phone.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This World Cup wasn’t going to be cheap to attend, but these memories for life cost so much that swathes of people can’t even toy with the idea.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Utility executives and analysts have said clean energy projects are crucial to help power new data centers and factories, because they can be built quickly and produce electricity that is relatively cheap.
    Michael Copley, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • On third-and-9, the Cowboys came out in empty formation with running back Javonte Williams split out wide next to George Pickens.
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This area was mostly empty at the beginning, but the monstrous sounds of the race cars firing up their engines drew a lot of attention.
    Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That's a terrible average to bet your life on.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • When his estranged daughter Sam tracks him down, in a last-ditch effort to dig her way out of serious trouble, Mickey must choose between rekindling his relationship with his daughter in the face of a terrible tragedy or pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Similar protests occurred in Brazil over steep living costs and poor healthcare and education ahead of the country hosting the 2014 World Cup tournament.
    Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Over time, dysfunctional breathing reinforces poor posture and scapular instability.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Truth is, Cora knows how to beat the Yankees with inferior players, a fact that leaves the top wild-card seed on the doorstep of the unthinkable.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Intel’s chip factories are considered inferior to TSMCs.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The game didn’t start bad for the Giants.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Apparently, Grier forgot his own words, because the lines that the Dolphins have built are collectively their worst this decade, something evident in a crushing 27-24 loss to Carolina, a game in which Miami blew a 17-0 lead.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Lit candles, images on paper and a plaster statue of the folk saint Gauchito Gil, flowers in green plastic bottles, simple bouquets of jasmine floating in rotten water inside coffee cans, a lot of plastic flowers to keep the place colorful.
    Mariana Enriquez October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Karen Read case exposed just how rotten the Bay State justice system can be.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Junky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junky. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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