gutsy
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The Rams lean on a strong performance by their defense and gutsy efforts from Kyren Williams and Matthew Stafford in a 24-20 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
In a gutsy move she opted not to make a closing argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
New Zealand declared their second innings on 288-9 after Daryl Mitchell completed a gutsy century, leaving the Black Caps on the verge of a series win.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Steve Jobs made gutsy bets on the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
She’ll never win any awards for kindness, but she certainly is gutsy.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
However, “Smile 2” is both gutsier and more coherent than the cerebral and moody “Mother Mary.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
Wong Howe had all of those things, but he was gutsier — he had to be.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
Kapler called it "one of the gutsier performances of the year from anybody in our pen."
From Fox News ● Sep. 23, 2021
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
Clemson: In what has been an up-and-down year, the Tigers may have earned their gutsiest win of the season.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
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
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