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spunky

[spuhng-kee] / ˈspʌŋ ki /


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In other travel news this week, there were obits galore for spunky Spirit Airlines after it went out of business early Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"We will always feel blessed to have had this beautiful spunky ray of light in our lives. She will live on in our hearts forever!"

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2025

Filmmaker Sean Wang’s autobiographical feature debut is graced by a spunky, sensitive performance by Izaac Wang as a kid moving through early-teenage confusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

In the photo, Halsey adorns a spunky pixie haircut and overplucked skinny eyebrows to pay homage to O'Riordan's cherry red short hairdo and overall '00s punk rock aesthetic.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024

The idea of a concert career for me appealed to his vision of himself as a poet and of me as more than a spunky tomboy.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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