gutsy
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Steve Jobs made gutsy bets on the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The gutsy victory means he has won 19 clay-court matches this year - more than any other player on the ATP Tour.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
And two months later, they travelled to Glasgow and spoiled Wilfried Nancy's first match as Celtic boss, winning 2-1 in a gutsy display.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Because LeBron James looked superhuman since playing those 45 minutes, including all five gutsy minutes of ovetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
She’ll never win any awards for kindness, but she certainly is gutsy.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
But this was one of the gutsier efforts by a Seattle defensive line in years led by newcomers Uchenna Nwosu and Shelby Harris, who each seemed to come up with one big play after another.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Kapler called it "one of the gutsier performances of the year from anybody in our pen."
From Fox News ● Sep. 23, 2021
Sweetgreen’s gutsier menu innovations are intended for the new 3.0 format or in delivery-only “ghost kitchens,” like the one the company will soon build in Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2020
This time she was both more conventional and gutsier, with Beethoven's Second Symphony; Mozart's late Piano Concerto No. 24, with David Fray as soloist; and the U.S. premiere of Dai Fujikura's "Secret Forest."
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
To wish they were better, gutsier, more harmonious feminists is a needless distraction: far better to wish them part of a bigger choir.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2017
For the team’s oldest player, it was among the gutsiest seasons in franchise history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
Clemson: In what has been an up-and-down year, the Tigers may have earned their gutsiest win of the season.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
She is the gutsiest, most curious person I have ever been around, and my world is much larger with her in it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
Pat called a timeout and then made what was probably the gutsiest call I ever saw her make.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020
“That’s one of the gutsiest things that I’ve seen, when he was embracing the booing, and that type of stuff. That took a lot of cojones, as they say,” seven-time Grand Slam champion McEnroe said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2020
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