plucky
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What we got instead was plucky Cape Verde playing No. 3 Spain to a draw and becoming the smallest nation to reach the elimination rounds.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026
They’re all here, and they have as much overconfident swagger as a plucky young star on the Disney Channel.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
A plucky wolf known as OR-7 traveled into California from Oregon.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
And Alison is the kind of plucky heroine who teases her lover about his research: “Lost treasures, haunted priories, secret maps? I think I saw that movie once.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Dandelion took up his cue with the same plucky readiness that he had shown in the wood.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing plucky
A Doll's House
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Lyddie
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