scrappy
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The checkouts cooled but Smith won a succession of scrappy legs to seal victory as Price's game deserted him.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Jane’s father was the famed Sol Goldman, a scrappy Brooklyn grocer’s son who would at his height amass 1,900 properties across the city, including a stake in the Chrysler Building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
Joe looked forward to the lean, scrappy end-of-week meals, but hated the Sunday one: a baked ham, a sweet heavy pie to follow it.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Still, a visit to Meyers’ sleek apartment, admittedly paid for by his parents, confirms for Ed the kind of youthful privilege at play here, so unlike the scrappier downtown bohemia of his own artistic heyday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I made a slightly scrappier version based on what I had around.
From Salon ● May 12, 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
Ostapenko broke Swiatek's serve three times to take the first set but was scrappier in the second, allowing Swiatek to level the match.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
"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
It was a long week of matches, featuring some of the scrappiest Overwatch I’ve seen this season.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
The resignations and cuts are a major setback for BuzzFeed News, one of the scrappiest and most successful digital news operations in the country.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Happy birthday to @frankthorp, one of the scrappiest on the Hill.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2018
Some of them are exquisite, many are large, and even the scrappiest have an artful understanding, in the interest of colour, with the waterways that edge their foundations.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
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