spunk
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Unlike the new kid who’s got spunk and talent, Sonny has the competence to back up his flair.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 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
She was a successful writer in New York City with an impossibly expensive wardrobe, a singular style, good friends and a lot of spunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
The man had character and spunk and Bloom had considered him an attractive original, had always known he was the real McCoy.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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 Symon and the Duke.
An' the haill apotheck lay in spails, As the grey mear warsled free; An' when auld Jock Smairt saw the fashion o' his cairt: "Wha's seekin' ony spunks?" says he.
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
She spunks up and her eyes sparkles whenever she thinks about that there tobaccer trust.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
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
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