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Recent Examples of junky 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 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 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 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 William does have one redeeming quality: A black cat that keeps him company when his life decisions leave him all alone in his junky bachelor apartment. Katie Rife, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junky
Adjective
  • Removing or reforming colleges with chronically poor outcomes means fewer borrowers entering repayment with no degree or worthless credentials.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Settlers who actually traveled to Florida to inspect their purchases were likely to be greeted by muddy parcels of worthless swampland overrun with snakes and mosquitoes, miles away from anything resembling civilization.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • China leads the global production of cheap goods made in large volume, such as dishes and cooking gadgets.
    Pablo Robles, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • With police turning a blind eye, Portland became a honeypot for local and out-of-state addicts to score cheap dope and use it freely.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Streets that typically buzzed with life were empty.
    Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Related article Trump was warned of empty shelves and financial turmoil from tariffs and firing Powell.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Public interest in the film intensified after a stroke of terrible happenstance.
    Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • United have fallen massively and it’s been a terrible watch all season, bar a couple of highs.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Consumer spending softened, increasing 1.8%, down from a 4% rise in the fourth quarter, but a decent performance in light of stock market turmoil and poor weather early in the quarter.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • These factors could contribute material risk to Nike’s earnings and put the company in a poor position to manage near-term headwinds.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • His radically inferior Black Panther sequel was rewritten in a scramble following the death of star Chadwick Boseman, and its very existence can be seen both as a testament to corporate inertia and a big, forgivable asterisk on an otherwise stellar CV.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Even if the Supreme Court finds that the members are inferior officers, as the Trump administration argues, Mitchell said that category of executive branch officials still requires appointment by the president and Senate, unless Congress says otherwise.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump intends to completely reimagine U.S. trade relations with our closest partners and fiercest rivals, for better or worse.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • As an attempt to derive meaning from a meaningless phrase —which was, after all, the user's request—that's not half bad.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Gunsmoke that smells of rotten eggs wafts over the field.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
  • These can cause your poop to smell like rotten eggs.12 Food intolerances, like lactose intolerance or gluten sensitivity can also cause smelly poop.
    Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH, Health, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Junky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junky. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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