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

There's a mettlesome colt," said Campbell, laughing and speaking to the officers around him, "that bird shows fight before his spurs are grown.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton