spunk
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Owing to her Western spunk, talent for deduction, ability to identify a tobacco scent Holmes cannot and the detective’s need for a sidekick, she’s made his assistant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Lorelai’s spunk is presented as a secret to her success: Having been a teen mom, she drips with “up by your bootstraps” energy.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2025
Indeed, Kansara plays Ria with spunk and a youthful vigor that makes it hard not to reminisce on one's own adolescent years.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2023
That’s a shame for star Naomi Ackie, who gamely embodies Houston’s luminous star power, sharp spunk and, later, world-weary disillusionment.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022
During the ride, the girls were somber, almost distant, but Abuelita Remedios was full of spunk.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
She spunks up and her eyes sparkles whenever she thinks about that there tobaccer trust.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
He looked hard at me wi' a pair o' een that glowed like twa spunks, and then he says, says he: "You've been born in these pairts, I understan'?"
From The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Advocate, who is not without some spunks of a remainder decency, has wrung your life-safe out of Simon and the Duke.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Then some person invented strips of wood dipped in sulphur and called "spunks."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
The Advocate, who is not without some spunks of a remainder decency, has wrung your life-safe out of Symon and the Duke.
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