pluck
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On a Wednesday in February in the Coachella Valley, more than two dozen farmworkers weaved up and down rows of strawberries, their gloved hands flicking quickly to pluck the fruit and stash it in boxes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Many of the planes are museum pieces, kept flying with scrounged parts and pluck, and stand little chance against modern warplanes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
If Bezos had any of that pluck, we certainly would not be reading about the Post’s pending demise.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026
One card reads: "Keep momentum, FBI slower overnight," while another said: "Change hat, shoes, pluck eyebrows".
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the ‘Mansion of Bliss’, as Meg called it.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing pluck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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The Magician's Nephew
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