scrappy
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And Gasly and his team absolutely nailed qualifying, while all the usual leading contenders had scrappy sessions one way or another.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Thankfully, public outcry and a scrappy indie distributor saved “Coyote vs. Acme” from oblivion after Warner Bros. allowed its makers to shop the movie around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
Wax figures of scrappy, earnest young communists gesticulate during a 1921 meeting frozen in time, debating how best to bring Marxism to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The scrappy puppy in the back seat, however, hops into the pilot's lap and starts gnawing on the control stick!
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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
Verizon needs to become scrappier and less bureaucratic, Schulman said at a WSJ Leadership Institute event this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Olsen: Your background is kind of in independent film and on “PEN15,” which is kind of a scrappier show.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
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
On set or onstage, she will throw herself into the scrappiest, spikiest, ugliest facets of any part, without ego or undue seriousness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Happy birthday to @frankthorp, one of the scrappiest on the Hill.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2018
Take a dozen such pyramids, and do your morning constitutional over them, after the scrappiest of breakfasts at 5 a.m., and you will find twelve or fourteen miles quite as much as you care about.
From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Cecil Francis Romer
