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Recent Examples of stunk
Nikola Jokic stunk in Game 3 on Thursday in Minneapolis.
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Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
And after a decade without postseason play in town, few fans have been brave enough to suggest the team should have intentionally stunk again instead.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Younger players either watched or didn’t improve as the Raiders stunk on ice.
—Vic Tafur, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Dolphins have stunk lately in weather like this.
—Greg Cote
january 1, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
And after a decade without postseason play in town, few fans have been brave enough to suggest the team should have intentionally stunk again instead.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Younger players either watched or didn’t improve as the Raiders stunk on ice.
—Vic Tafur, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
Dolphins have stunk lately in weather like this.
—Greg Cote
january 1, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stunk
Verb
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Nostalgia was for the Smurfs, for erasers that smelled like strawberries.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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Heavy seaside fog settled above us, and the air smelled salty.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
Verb
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Yet both Carney and his creator kept getting sucked back in.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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And seriously, without fail, I got completely sucked into Oprah’s magic.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
22 June 2026
Verb
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But the next three years reeked of alpha decay—the firm’s average yearly gain slumped from eighteen per cent to nine.—
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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His shirt reeked of the flowery-formaldehyde tartness of mothballs pickling dress pockets in a closet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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“Stunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stunk. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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