pluck

So Levinson decided to pluck down $850 for two Category 3 tickets — among the cheapest available — for he and his wife to go the final U.S. group-play game at SoFi Stadium in June.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

She brings a sort of Disney princess innocence and pluck to Anna, which makes sense considering she played Ariel in the live-action “The Little Mermaid.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

If Bezos had any of that pluck, we certainly would not be reading about the Post’s pending demise.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

On the opening title track, Ms. Reid, guitarist Mary Halvorson and bassist Jason Roebke sound playful yet driven as they pluck lines, in unison or overlapping, while drummer Tomas Fujiwara brushes a loose-limbed snare-drum swing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

“Marvellian towns lack”—he waved his hand around as if to pluck the word from somewhere—“flavor, if you will.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

He frequently plucks from his tremendous word hoard gems that will send you to the dictionary: bonxie, fankle, rupestral, stramash, zawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The worker plucks the items out of the bin and places them on another robot that resembles a toy Tonka truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

In each show Taylor plucks someone from the audience and gives them her hat which is a nod to the outfit she wore in the music video for her 2012 single.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

She touches my hand, plucks at the skin of my wrist.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

As the smoke from France's worst wildfire in over 75 years rose over the Bassin d'Arcachon, a pair of nearby firefighters tucked into a plate of oysters plucked from the bay west of Bordeaux.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The following track, “Death Wish,” is about the torment of a new love gone bad, and it unfolds over plucked acoustic guitars and a distant bass drum that sounds like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

In the past, studios have plucked influencers from their online niche and slotted them into whatever mainstream production needed a face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

When a violin string is plucked, it produces a main tone along with a series of overtones.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

Emily, the girl who’d been so soothing before, asked as she plucked pointlessly at her sweatshirt sleeve.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

It bursts with insights that mix journalistic acumen with gossip, backed by a score generously seasoned with mischievous violin string plucking.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

A pigeon briefly stopped play during Atletico Madrid's 3-2 win over Real Sociedad with unflappable defender Jose Gimenez plucking the bird off the pitch and taking it to safety.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Raffy, Diouf and ambitious young Pistache sat at the top of a baobab, plucking a breakfast of fruit that they cracked open with a whack-whack-whack against the branches.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

For humans, it is a foul, laborious job that entails standing over a conveyor belt, plucking beer cans and detergent bottles from a stream of refuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

I’d started walking forward without realizing it and was inches away from plucking the Story Box off the pedestal.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia