pluck

I had long admired her, especially the rollicking and indispensable “Slow Days, Fast Company,” first published in 1977, a charming and insightful series of stories bursting with pluck and sass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

"But I've had so many friends do Strictly, and I thought it was about time that I pluck up the courage and made my way on to the dance floor."

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

Richard reached out to pluck a wildflower that looked like a poppy.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"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

She walks around her Boston home and plucks up a fan-made crocheted rabbit toting an ax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

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

When I approach she looks me straight in the eye and plucks a purple cabbage.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

They include Bara, a male orangutan plucked from the haze on Thursday, authorities told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Maxine Groffsky, one of the readers at Random House, plucked McCarthy’s pages from the slush pile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

He was plucked from the Thames alive, but Brown was found unconscious and unresponsive and died later in hospital.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

He plucked herbal detritus out of the thick hair on his arms.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

"One of my recent tricks is to find any weird chord that may intrigue me," plucking the opening notes of As You Lie There on an acoustic guitar.

From BBC ● May 27, 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

There was something vague and uncertain about the slouch of her shoulders, the uneasy plucking of her fingers.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee