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Recent Examples of conk
Sonari Glinton,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
That’s what the slick dude with the conk and the blue Pontiac says to Elwood, who is hitching a ride to get to college.
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Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2024
This is a fungal conk, probably from the genus Ganoderma, although that’s not my field of expertise.
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Neil Sperry,
ExpressNews.com,
8 Oct. 2020
Padgett Powell,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
The suave Hernández character Domingo appeared briefly but was conked on the noggin by White, who also achieved Five-Timers status, but as a musical guest.
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Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
Then — and this is important — she gets conked on the head and wakes up in an entirely different movie.
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Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
River was saved, in a sense, by getting conked in the back of his head, which took him away from the clutches of Hugo Weaving’s Frank Harkness and into the clutches of Natasha (Coralie Audret), who’s anxious to know what brought him into town.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2024
According to rumors, a blazing row on the terrace of their hotel – the San Domenico Palace – ended when Taylor conked Burton on the head with a mandolin.
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John Bleasdale,
Variety,
18 June 2023
While some little ones conk out as soon as the engine starts, others have a difficult time being in the car for hours—or any time at all.
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Amy Marturana Winderl,
SELF,
26 Oct. 2020
Noun
The conk, the afro… and the jheri curl.
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Sonari Glinton,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
That’s what the slick dude with the conk and the blue Pontiac says to Elwood, who is hitching a ride to get to college.
—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2024
This is a fungal conk, probably from the genus Ganoderma, although that’s not my field of expertise.
—
Neil Sperry,
ExpressNews.com,
8 Oct. 2020
Verb
An adventure in the Philippines where the mangosteens conk you.
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Padgett Powell,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
The suave Hernández character Domingo appeared briefly but was conked on the noggin by White, who also achieved Five-Timers status, but as a musical guest.
—
Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
Then — and this is important — she gets conked on the head and wakes up in an entirely different movie.
—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
River was saved, in a sense, by getting conked in the back of his head, which took him away from the clutches of Hugo Weaving’s Frank Harkness and into the clutches of Natasha (Coralie Audret), who’s anxious to know what brought him into town.
—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2024
According to rumors, a blazing row on the terrace of their hotel – the San Domenico Palace – ended when Taylor conked Burton on the head with a mandolin.
—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
18 June 2023
While some little ones conk out as soon as the engine starts, others have a difficult time being in the car for hours—or any time at all.
—
Amy Marturana Winderl,
SELF,
26 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conk
Noun
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Cook County animal control also reminded pet owners that animals with short coats, or with white or tan fur, are more susceptible to sunburbn, especially on their noses.
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The nose is designed to help break up the shockwaves that are typically created when an aircraft flies faster than the speed of sound.
Verb
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There were biscuits hard enough to brain a bear with.
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Retro Rewind is the kind of game that will keep your hands and brain minimally busy while listening to a podcast or watching some rerun on a background TV.
Noun
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With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee.
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With those personal details out of the way, the app asks the user to identify the dog’s breed, snout description, and coat type (single, double, or hairless), as well as what her typical daily activity looks like.
Verb
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In the last meeting between these teams in early November, Bane beaned Okongwu in the head with the ball after flagrantly fouling him and was ejected from the game.
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Detmers came in to face the top of the order and beaned Brandon Nimmo to load the bases for Francisco Lindor, who beat out a double play to score Alvarez, and stole second to put runners on second and third.
Verb
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The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
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This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?
Verb
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Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
Verb
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Roupp helped his own cause by making a nifty play to turn two in the sixth, spearing a comebacker behind his back before firing to shortstop Willy Adames to kick-start a 1-6-3 double play.
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Jafaar al-Samra had just sold an octopus, minutes after spearing it while snorkeling.
Verb
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Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.
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Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.
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“Conk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conk. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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