scrappy
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Four minutes later, Cameron Hanekom scooped up scrappy ball to put the result beyond doubt and render replacement Beauden Barrett's late try only a footnote.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Jane’s father was the famed Sol Goldman, a scrappy Brooklyn grocer’s son who would at his height amass 1,900 properties across the city, including a stake in the Chrysler Building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Their scrappy determination helped convince family members, neighbors and eventually the rest of the country that the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty and equality applied to same-sex couples.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
“So we do get scrappy, and I think that’s what sets the I.E. apart from places like L.A. and O.C.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
She was scrappy yet willing to please, feminist yet feminine, full of rage yet friendly, articulate yet not dogmatic.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Smaller, scrappier fairs like Post-Fair and Felix are joined by newcomer Enzo, providing art lovers with plenty of opportunities to discover new art at a variety of price points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Serrano started strongly with sharp body work and accurate left hands from her southpaw stance, before the contest developed into a scrappier affair than expected.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
The show is a smaller, scrappier counterpoint to an exhibition —and accompanying catalog — staged last fall at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
But what I found was that Black newsrooms, because we often had smaller budgets, we were scrappier.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
"Doug, am I any scrappier than the rest of them?"
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
This is the probably the scrappiest I had to be since "Colma: The Musical."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
I have talked to those CEOs, and they are some of the scrappiest folks out there.
From The Verge ● May 3, 2022
The resignations and cuts are a major setback for BuzzFeed News, one of the scrappiest and most successful digital news operations in the country.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Happy birthday to @frankthorp, one of the scrappiest on the Hill.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2018
Some of them are exquisite, many are large, and even the scrappiest have an artful understanding, in the interest of colour, with the waterways that edge their foundations.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
