gutsy

In a gutsy move she opted not to make a closing argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

And two months later, they travelled to Glasgow and spoiled Wilfried Nancy's first match as Celtic boss, winning 2-1 in a gutsy display.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Because LeBron James looked superhuman since playing those 45 minutes, including all five gutsy minutes of ovetime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

Intent on ensuring that China leapfrogs the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent power, Xi Jinping recently made the gutsy and perhaps counterintuitive decision to invest massively in an arena of American strength—basic research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

“No,” I say, trying to be gutsy, too.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

But it was in “Pearl,” a cleverly deranged prequel set six decades earlier, that Goth delivered the bolder, gutsier performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022

But this was one of the gutsier efforts by a Seattle defensive line in years led by newcomers Uchenna Nwosu and Shelby Harris, who each seemed to come up with one big play after another.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

Kapler called it "one of the gutsier performances of the year from anybody in our pen."

From Fox News ● Sep. 23, 2021

Sweetgreen’s gutsier menu innovations are intended for the new 3.0 format or in delivery-only “ghost kitchens,” like the one the company will soon build in Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2020

To wish they were better, gutsier, more harmonious feminists is a needless distraction: far better to wish them part of a bigger choir.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2017

For the team’s oldest player, it was among the gutsiest seasons in franchise history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

“I did have a front-row seat to one of the gutsiest, toughest performances of a quarterback playing in a season that I have ever seen,” Keenum said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

All they needed to know was that Morton did one of the gutsiest things they have ever seen.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021

In his first victory, in 2010, Mr. Bream’s 1989 BMW 3-Series beat 100 other cars at Buttonwillow Raceway in Bakersfield, where Southern California’s gutsiest speed-shop mechanics compete.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

“That’s one of the gutsiest things that I’ve seen, when he was embracing the booing, and that type of stuff. That took a lot of cojones, as they say,” seven-time Grand Slam champion McEnroe said.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2020