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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
In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Sire presciently signed or distributed music by a variety of top-flight punk and post-punk groups from the U.S. and abroad. Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023 Absolutely, particularly in 1976 and ’77 when all those English punk bands were genuinely punk. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
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This year, a possibly even better new recording of the song appeared on a new companion EP for the New Jersey punk band’s 2023 reunion album History Books. Al Shipley, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024 Mayweather came off like a punk, but really wasn’t one. Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for punk 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for punk
Adjective
  • Greenwashing and intentional misinformation are unacceptable, but silence from the best actors is an even bigger risk.
    Jesper Brodin, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In this team, calling in sick for shady reasons is unacceptable.
    Lieke ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Traffic was horrible and the private crews can’t turn on a siren, ignore traffic laws, and drive on the wrong side of the road like public firefighters.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Recommended Trump moves from ‘American carnage’ to ‘a horrible betrayal’ in second inaugural Juries also convicted some on charges of seditious conspiracy, which refers to activities that undermine a state without directly attacking it.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Most cases were blamed on direct contact with sick animals, except for three that have befuddled investigators who failed to identify a likely source.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • What might have caused thousands of Samoans to get sick?
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
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  • Now, Trump has four years of White House experience while Vance is a novice.
    Roy Brownell, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Apart from Musk’s most loyal sycophants, the build was almost universally ridiculed as the work of a complete novice.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • Although the new government seems willing to listen to Alawite concerns, there’s a lingering resentment, with many pointing to the community’s complicity in torture and war crimes — whether in the security services or gangs of thugs known as the shabiha — over the 14 years of the conflict.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There was a time, not long ago, when men who lifted weights for fun were seen as either thugs or narcissists.
    Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • When a garbage man showed up this week, Ms. deVicariis was overjoyed after days of cleaning up vegetation.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The 55-year-old super’s body was found hidden under Navarro’s bed wrapped in clothing and two garbage bags, one covering his top half, the other covering his lower half.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The swindles also involved fake investments, phony sweepstakes, and tech support scams in which a person was contacted and told there was something wrong with their computer, which could be corrected for a fee.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The outlet reports that Puente would even continue to write letters to her tenants’ family members for months following their deaths in order to cover her tracks and lead the families to believe nothing was wrong.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • While this is terrible for the environment, customer satisfaction, and retailers’ bottom lines, the truth is the industry has created a monster and easy and free returns have become the basic consumer expectation.
    Steve Dennis, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Gerulaitis’s gallows humour deflects from the fact that his terrible records against Connors and Borg took a big toll on his confidence.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025

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“Punk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punk. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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