plucky
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What to watch out for: While Morocco's run to the last four in Qatar was a surprise, this side contending in the United States are much more than plucky underdogs.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
Many of the news stories highlighted the threat to the unique plants and animals inhabiting the island off the coast of Santa Barbara, from plucky, pint-sized foxes to the rarest pine trees in North America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Sosie had played her part, being the smiling, plucky, don’t-worry-about-me, lip-reading Pollyanna.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
When the older animal approached again, one of the pluckier cubs took a cue from its high-ranking mom and stood tall, trying its best to look intimidating.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024
Maybe if local papers were pluckier and more assertive about advocating for the people in their communities, those people would be more willing to pay.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2020
It piles on chance encounters, strange resemblance, a secret society and clever heroines such as Jane Austen crafted 40 years before, but even pluckier and less conventional.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
Yet Callis has overcome this obstacle by doing what any savvy politician must do when in need of a pluckier yarn: She borrows from her parents and grandparents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2014
But there, she is not to be laughed at, for a pluckier little woman—— Lord, how she did fight that wind!
From Vestigia Vol. I. by Fleming, George
And yet, with a wider view, the Bills remain the pluckiest of NFL underdogs.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Celina Smith is the world’s pluckiest orphan and Taraji P. Henson is the scheming Miss Hannigan in “Annie Live!”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
It's edge-of-the-seat stuff from the off, and when the pluckiest reach the ocean, you'll be punching the air.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
Heck, even the dewiest, pluckiest ingénue would have a hard time staying fresh once she became an endlessly re-marketable brand name.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012
Yet there are times when even the pluckiest among us fail to follow this sage advice.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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