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Pickers pluck items from shelves in a prescribed sequence while drivers double-check bagged orders before speeding off on scooters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

If you take the three releases and pluck the best tracks from each—a half-dozen songs from both “Iceman” and “Maid,” and one from “Habibti”—you have a strong Drake record with a lot of variety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

On a Wednesday in February in the Coachella Valley, more than two dozen farmworkers weaved up and down rows of strawberries, their gloved hands flicking quickly to pluck the fruit and stash it in boxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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

I reach down and pluck a blade of grass.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

"Ants, for example, this year are only available for customers who specifically ask to try them," said Atala, whose Sao Paulo restaurant D.O.M. plucks ingredients from the Amazonian wilderness to reinterpret Indigenous traditions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

And it plucks a nerve in a country still scarred by its history of militarism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Plus, each claw kicks up a relatively small puff of sediment as it plucks its target off the seafloor.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

On the business end, there is a 3cm metal tip that plucks a piece of skin and blubber from the whale’s body.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024

Sophia rises from her seat and plucks one of the cream tarts from a tiered dessert platter.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

After a minute or so, he plucked 11 tiny ticks from the cloth with tweezers, and stuck them on a lint roller.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Before Chris could block it, the sender attached a photo plucked from the public Facebook account of his 24-year-old daughter, Allyson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Picked by Aboriginals for tens of thousands of years, wattleseed, plucked from the native Acacia plants, is high in protein and traditionally roasted over an open fire and ground down to make bread.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Four years later he plucked up the courage to ring him up, and after several more calls they met in person and eventually Prince Laurent suggested they take a DNA test.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

His answer came as a squirrel plucked another barb from the porcupine’s back and held it like a javelin, poised to spear through Clare’s undead heart.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

As the waves bashed the coast this week, boulders smashed into the piles of Mitchell Leib’s Malibu home, plucking them like a “guitar string” and shaking his house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The finding may explain why we can build upon skills, like going from plucking single notes on a guitar to shredding rock riffs, or from dribbling a ball to making cross-court plays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

I’d been cranky, Grandma said, for weeks, and now Ruth’s continued plucking made me grit my teeth.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth