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Recent Examples of wonky
Unlike Gundam, which has many games (most of which can be rather underwhelming), Cowboy Bebop has only two to date: a weird shmup on the PSone and a functionally wonky action game on the PlayStation 2.
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Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The foundation has centered its opposition on the wonky economic process of measuring how much climate damages that are realized decades from now should be worth today.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 21 Feb. 2025
Most of them use relatively simple point-to-point wiring, tubes, and transistors—all of which can be repaired if something goes wonky.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
Some have cigarettes tucked behind their ears, while others scratch at wonky tattoos hastily drawn on with Sharpie.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The foundation has centered its opposition on the wonky economic process of measuring how much climate damages that are realized decades from now should be worth today.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 21 Feb. 2025
Most of them use relatively simple point-to-point wiring, tubes, and transistors—all of which can be repaired if something goes wonky.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
Some have cigarettes tucked behind their ears, while others scratch at wonky tattoos hastily drawn on with Sharpie.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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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 are small rocky masses left over from the formation of the solar system around 4.6 billion years ago.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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China’s far distance ahead of the U.S. in shipbuilding capabilities along with the countries’ rocky trade relationship have provided the driving subtext throughout the probe, which was spurred on by a petition from five labor unions.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Mar. 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 15 Mar. 2025.
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