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
McKeen recalled how he and other farmers at the time would pitch restaurants on serving fresh oysters, while simultaneously developing a scrappy style of aquaculture to propagate them in the Damariscotta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
He's probably running inventory of who I could be with, envisioning a few of us here, a scrappy team of orphans and outcasts.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
Smaller, scrappier fairs like Post-Fair and Felix are joined by newcomer Enzo, providing art lovers with plenty of opportunities to discover new art at a variety of price points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
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
I’m really grateful for Veeps and the opportunity to do a special with them, they’re a little scrappy and they have a decent budget, but it’s definitely scrappier than all my other specials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
But what I found was that Black newsrooms, because we often had smaller budgets, we were scrappier.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
He was red-haired, ferret-eyed, and an excellent scout, but scrappier and more inarticulate in his manner of speech than any human being I had ever encountered.
From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Grant Allen
This is the probably the scrappiest I had to be since "Colma: The Musical."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Based on Daniel James Brown’s bestselling novel of the same name, “The Boys in the Boat” follows Joe Rantz, who’s perhaps the scrappiest of all his teammates.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 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
In short, unless you send me as long a letter I am sending you, you mustn't expect anything more than the scrappiest note from me in the future.
From Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by John Benjamin Firth
