plucky
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JR: Those plucky underdogs from Argentina get all the breaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
A plucky wolf known as OR-7 traveled into California from Oregon.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
A 16-year-old managed to fight off competition from hundreds of plucky competitors to win an annual race through a boggy riverbed.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
And Alison is the kind of plucky heroine who teases her lover about his research: “Lost treasures, haunted priories, secret maps? I think I saw that movie once.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Dandelion took up his cue with the same plucky readiness that he had shown in the wood.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
When the older animal approached again, one of the pluckier cubs took a cue from its high-ranking mom and stood tall, trying its best to look intimidating.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024
Maybe if local papers were pluckier and more assertive about advocating for the people in their communities, those people would be more willing to pay.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2020
It piles on chance encounters, strange resemblance, a secret society and clever heroines such as Jane Austen crafted 40 years before, but even pluckier and less conventional.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
Yet Callis has overcome this obstacle by doing what any savvy politician must do when in need of a pluckier yarn: She borrows from her parents and grandparents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2014
Arthur thumped along into his own room and went happily to bed, feeling that girls were pluckier that he had thought them, and that even crutch-bearers could accomplish something in the world.
From Glenloch Girls by Grace M. Remick
And yet, with a wider view, the Bills remain the pluckiest of NFL underdogs.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Celina Smith is the world’s pluckiest orphan and Taraji P. Henson is the scheming Miss Hannigan in “Annie Live!”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
It's edge-of-the-seat stuff from the off, and when the pluckiest reach the ocean, you'll be punching the air.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
Heck, even the dewiest, pluckiest ingénue would have a hard time staying fresh once she became an endlessly re-marketable brand name.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012
Yet there are times when even the pluckiest among us fail to follow this sage advice.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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