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falling short of a standard she plays a punk game of tennis, so you won't have any trouble beating her

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Recent Examples of punk
Adjective
Dammers’s recollection of this time will strike a chord with many people who were there: For me, reggae made punk gigs bearable. Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 The five smudge shades are named after punk music culture. India Espy-Jones, Essence, 10 Dec. 2024
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Two of the leads hated each other — the British stage actor thought the scruffy newcomer was a snot-nosed punk, and his younger co-star felt the veteran thespian was a drunk with a superiority complex. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025 Hallelujah the Hills have always been a punk band, at least in the 1977 CBGB sense (Patti Smith, Ramones, Talking Heads, Television). Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for punk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for punk
Adjective
  • The use of unilateral sanctions against Special Rapporteurs or any other UN expert or official is unacceptable.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • Students, both the ones who behave and the ones who misbehave, need to know that there are real consequences for unacceptable behavior.
    Carrie Lukas, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • For many who were directly affected by the flood, these post-flood days have been like waking up from a horrible nightmare.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
  • Maybe the news reports and images trigger your feelings around a horrible experience at a camp, a personal loss of a child, or even just a loss of feeling safe and in control of the world, said Hurlbert.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Kids get hurt and get sick, like anyone else; every year, a few in the practice battle life-threatening illness, often cancer.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • Mission Viejo raced to the title while playing without wide receiver Vance Spafford (sick), cornerback Jeron Jones (fractured wrist), safeties Sawyer Thomson (knee) and Zachary Foeldi (knee) and wide receiver Max Markofski (hip).
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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  • This makes these spots good for young anglers and novices as well as those with mobility challenges.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2025
  • Two pilots in uniform greeted us and put all of us novice fliers at ease, giving us a rundown about the safety measures between cracking jokes.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • According to reporting from the Clermont Sun, Fike tweeted ‘#thug the new n word’ in April 2015 and ‘Thug life = thug treatment = no pity from me’ in July 2019.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2025
  • These scenes evoke images of government thugs in violent regimes disappearing opponents.
    Christy Lopez Guest, Mercury News, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Another item that is often forgotten is garbage bags for collecting waste along the way, especially when passing through remote areas without public bins.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • The Bureau of Rodent Control has been increasing collaboration with the Bureau of Sanitation to replace faulty garbage carts, which rats can exploit to obtain more food.
    William Tong, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • For instance, Putignano says there’s nothing wrong with expecting a teen to clean their room, just as your parents expected of you.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 15 July 2025
  • But new research shows that the intuitive assumption that the water is mostly newly melted snow or fresh rain is dead wrong.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Vegas bounced back from a terrible loss to the Fever with an 86-68 win over the Sun on Sunday.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • And because of that, it’s shielded us from the terrible things that happen downstream in the supply chain.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 8 July 2025

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“Punk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punk. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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