scrappy
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Stephen Cartwright, from the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, said: "We need the places right next to where people live, that are scrappy bits of land."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Ms. Brauer, a scrappy, dyslexic young woman from a working-class Long Island, N.Y., family, discovered boating in college.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Comfortable and on top until Johan Manzambi's scrappy opener for the visitors - while Spurs were temporarily down to 10 men as Micky van de Ven had treatment - they never recovered.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Thankfully, public outcry and a scrappy indie distributor saved “Coyote vs. Acme” from oblivion after Warner Bros. allowed its makers to shop the movie around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Plastered across the width of the paper was a giant picture of us—my sisters and I huddled together under last year’s scrappy little Christmas tree, happy as mariposas, our bright smiles belying our alleged situation.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Still, a visit to Meyers’ sleek apartment, admittedly paid for by his parents, confirms for Ed the kind of youthful privilege at play here, so unlike the scrappier downtown bohemia of his own artistic heyday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I made a slightly scrappier version based on what I had around.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Serrano started strongly with sharp body work and accurate left hands from her southpaw stance, before the contest developed into a scrappier affair than expected.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Verizon needs to become scrappier and less bureaucratic, Schulman said at a WSJ Leadership Institute event this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
"Doug, am I any scrappier than the rest of them?"
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
This is the probably the scrappiest I had to be since "Colma: The Musical."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Based on Daniel James Brown’s bestselling novel of the same name, “The Boys in the Boat” follows Joe Rantz, who’s perhaps the scrappiest of all his teammates.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
It was a long week of matches, featuring some of the scrappiest Overwatch I’ve seen this season.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
The resignations and cuts are a major setback for BuzzFeed News, one of the scrappiest and most successful digital news operations in the country.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
“The scrappiest captain in the army,” says Knudsen.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
