mettlesome

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Pairing mettlesome athletes with cutting-edge technology is “the nucleus of what’s driven the program over the last 20 years,” Holdcroft said.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

The weather does its best to massacre his New Yorkers, tormenting them with frigid winters and suffocating summers; their response to the vital challenge is to show off the mettlesome resilience of the human animal.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013

That left Andsnes' athletic, mettlesome and exciting performance of the Brahms to lift the concert out of the ordinary.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 18, 2011

The movement's unacknowledged leader, if such a mettlesome mood can be said to have one, is surely Sean Brock, the brilliant young chef of McCrady's Restaurant in Charleston, S.C.

From Time • Oct. 27, 2010

"She is too fiery for all that," said the girl, as she held in the mettlesome animal, and endeavored to calm her by patting her neck.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James