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Recent Examples of skunk
Noun
Authorities found a total of 105 dead animals, including 77 rabbits, 23 chickens, two cats, a duck, a skunk and a squirrel, according to the warrant affidavit. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025 So are the deer, turkeys, skunks, crickets, spiders, ticks, bats, dragonflies, and ospreys. Eric Lach, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
The party got skunked in every battleground state and lost the popular vote for the first time in 20 years. Charlotte Alter, Time, 19 May 2025 Sam had a sudden flash of some decades old cartoon, an anthropomorphized rabbit or skunk with its jaw dropped, a foghorn like awooga accompanying the lolling of its cartoonishly long tongue. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skunk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skunk
Noun
  • Robotic dogs and militant imagery stand in for violence and human invention turned destructive.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In Toledo, a misread contributed to a Black man being mauled by a police K-9 dog after a traffic stop.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Invita Cafe, a San Diego coffee shop, is being scrutinized and review-bombed on social media for pro-Charlie Kirk posts and products as part of a broader national response on both sides of the political aisle to last week's assassination of the conservative commentator.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Forget the marketing campaign that bombed.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In 2023-24, Jones had a career year for the Mavericks, who were defeated by the Boston Celtics in the 2024 NBA Finals.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Some decisions are prudent, such as the Las Vegas Raiders to defeat the New England Patriots at a nice underdog price.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The lakes froze thick enough to skate across, the air stung sharp in the lungs, and the game every boy seemed to dream about was hockey.
    Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • It’s revealed that Sklar was Lori’s inspiration as a child to become an artist, only to crush that spark a dozen or so years later with stinging cruelty.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pregnant women who smoke marijuana can also have breathing problems because the substance lowers the amount of oxygen while smoking, according to the ACOG.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Whisk together lime zest, lime juice, olive oil, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and smoked paprika in a small bowl.
    Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Operating at the Frontier If yesterday’s winners mastered the deal model, tomorrow’s winners will master integration, culture, and execution.
    Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Within the first two hours online, high-level fighting players had already seemingly mastered the game’s beginner-friendly systems and begun using the easily executable combos to dominate the scene, air juggling hapless newbies into oblivion.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There are things worse than cheating.
    Essence, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing sends chills down your spine like evil clowns, undead monsters and a filthy car.
    Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Someone should be impeaching this Laporta clown.
    Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Skunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skunk. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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