pluck
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Except for the part where they pluck and prune themselves into the hairlessness of a dolphin; “Love is Blind’s” Zack Goytowski and “Love Island’s” Zach Georgiou both cop to shaving their legs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Teams cannot pluck a developmental player from another team on a developmental deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
Bethell's performances have vindicated England's decision to pluck him from relative obscurity.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Aru had the strangest impulse to reach into herself as if she might pluck out her own soul.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
And it plucks a nerve in a country still scarred by its history of militarism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
A long in-swinger comes in but Angus Gunn plucks the ball from the air.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
In short, Radan ignores Story’s actual arguments, plucks out one sentence and then falsely claims that his argument isn’t clear.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
Cordelia plucks her eyebrows into two thin lines, thinner than mine, and paints her nails Fire and Ice.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
Eventually, after he plucked up the courage he "ended up having a lovely conversation with one of the members about the peregrines at the university".
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
When a violin string is plucked, it produces a main tone along with a series of overtones.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
On one stoop, a man gently plucked a guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Ivan plucked the ex-dragon’s hand off his shoulder.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The company made headlines this week for plucking downed pilots out of peril, but its larger goal is to keep servicemembers out of harm’s way in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"It is a pretty-looking thing," he concedes, plucking fragments off a clump torn from a carpet of green moss.
From BBC ● May 30, 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
She’s over wasting time plucking chin hairs, searching for brain fog-induced lost reading glasses and — most of all — withholding her opinions so as not to offend others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
Mulch reached into his beard, plucking out a sturdy hair.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Magician's Nephew
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