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Recent Examples of slunk
Locksley has not posted a winning record in Big Ten play through six seasons, and his team slunk to 1-8 last season.
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Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slunk
Verb
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Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series — a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter’s life.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The pass was a perfect one-timed through ball for Chawinga, who dribbled through five defenders and snuck a shot past Naeher.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
27 Sep. 2025
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The pair has snuck onto the school’s rooftop to skip class and smoke weed — a typical activity for them.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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After a disastrous trip to Mexico where Irina appeared repulsed by pretty much everything Zack did, the couple split and Zack crawled back to Bliss.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Just as Ted Lasso began life as a promo for NBC’s English Premier League coverage, Chad Powers crawled out of a gag on Eli’s Places, Eli Manning’s post-retirement ESPN+ program, in which the former Giants quarterback hides under prosthetics to pose as an aspiring Penn State walk-on.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Slunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slunk. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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