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Recent Examples of wonky
Some have cigarettes tucked behind their ears, while others scratch at wonky tattoos hastily drawn on with Sharpie.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
It’s now been 21 months since the May 2023 surgery, which was the fourth procedure Landeskog has had to try and fix his wonky knee.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2025
There were, however, some wonky editing choices, like integrating Mary Cosby into the season by filming scene after scene of her in her walk-in closet.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
Normally, if an actor has 55 pages of dialogue in a film while his female counterpart has only three, there's clearly a wonky gender dynamic at play.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
It’s now been 21 months since the May 2023 surgery, which was the fourth procedure Landeskog has had to try and fix his wonky knee.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2025
There were, however, some wonky editing choices, like integrating Mary Cosby into the season by filming scene after scene of her in her walk-in closet.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
Normally, if an actor has 55 pages of dialogue in a film while his female counterpart has only three, there's clearly a wonky gender dynamic at play.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wonky
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His commitment to America's European allies is shaky at best, and nobody in their right minds still believes that Trump would endanger New York or Washington to attack—let alone to nuke—Moscow or Saint Petersburg in defense of Warsaw or Paris.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Several momentum stocks that are part of the artificial intelligence trade have been shaky since the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in late January.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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Darkly tipsy aromas that include rum, fruit cake, maraschino cherries, slight petrol and carrot cake.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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An arrangement by Thomas Adès of Conlon Nancarrow’s Study No. 6, one of his ingenious player-piano exercises, somehow transformed complex rhythmic layerings into a blithe, tipsy rumba.—
Zachary Woolfe,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Asteroids, also known as minor planets, are rocky, airless objects that originated from the early formation of our solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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Skiers and riders can make their way to the tippy top of the mountain on the higher bowls for a little fun on peaks 6, 7, and 8, but be warned.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Feb. 2025
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But after that, sure enough, fun highlights, including the tippy top of the loop and superfast glimpse of Universal CityWalk, the busting through the New York facade, surfing above the queue and doubling back dramatically to the loading station.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2025
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The attorney general asserts that the partnership carries a lack of justification in the public interest, is economically unbalanced toward Panama and affects competition.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Mar. 2025
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Although he was paired with Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, the team was horrendously unbalanced and had big problems when their star players didn’t track back.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Wonky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonky. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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