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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
One was Wire, the uncompromising English post-punk band cited by at least three DK members in this oral history. Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Even in a major city like Seattle, where Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan grew up a thousand miles away, the sound of Southern California punk was echoing into the consciousness of punk social circles. Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
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Throughout, punk and vintage influences played into an alt-bourgeois vibe that echoed the wardrobe Rogge carved out of pieces inherited and invented, from band T-shirts shaped into shift dresses and revisited boat shoes to traditional menswear tailoring and luxurious dresses. Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025 Borrowing from the flamboyance of the New Romantics, the edginess of punks and the melancholic themes in their music, goth makeup was dark, vampiric, and vaguely dangerous—an aesthetic music fans copied when gathering at goth haunts like the Batcave in London. Sophia Panych, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for punk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for punk
Adjective
  • The New York State GOP Executive Committee then voted unanimously to revoke the Young Republicans’ charter on October 17, 2025, citing mismanagement and condemning the language as unacceptable in the party or its affiliates.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Others are preaching patience, but acknowledge that the status quo is unacceptable.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Inherently, a writer doing historical research is always victim to this horrible irony.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There are some horrible things said on stage by the mystery writer that Tony Carlin plays.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Only sea stars injected with Vibrio pectenicida, or with material from sick sea stars, showed signs of disease.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Aquarium’s Rescue and Rehabilitation team also spends several months every year caring for sick and injured green sea turtles at its Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Now, the website has become essential for anyone who’s interested in, or serious about, chess—from novices to grandmasters.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Especially for opera novices, the Prelude Talks can be a great way to get oriented before the overture.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • This haunting film was also his first collaboration with Hellboy’s Ron Perlman, who plays a thug out to get the beetle for his rich uncle.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Stop Sales sent the raw chicken, cut cow foot and jerk sauce into the garbage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors said Hernandez choked Etan, stuffed his body into a plastic garbage bag hidden inside a box and took it out with the trash.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Human nature, however, urges us to do the exact wrong thing.
    Steve Booren, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There's a quote from The Office that's always stuck with me for all the wrong reasons.
    Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Chapter narrators alternate between a homing pigeon and a soldier whose futures intersect in the most terrible of war offensives in France.
    The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Sunday will also be Gabriel’s first NFL start in terrible weather.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Punk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punk. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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