pluckier; pluckiest
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For a team that’s been knocking on the door as a plucky underdog over the past few years, acquiring Rantanen has given this team a game breaker at a totally different level than what previously existed in Texas.
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Thomas Drance, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Yes, but: Some argue that these plucky underdogs may cease to exist as good players transfer to more elite programs that can offer them more NIL money.
—Maxwell Millington, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
The intense first look at his new film, The Running Man, debuted at CinemaCon on Thursday and introduced Powell's plucky Ben Richards, the hero of Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name, written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
There are plucky steamed chive dumplings with translucent skin, meatball-like shumai teeming with pork, chicken or shrimp, green tea sesame balls (each $1.50 apiece) with Wicked-green dough surrounding sweet black paste.
—Benjy Egel, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Thomas Drance, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Yes, but: Some argue that these plucky underdogs may cease to exist as good players transfer to more elite programs that can offer them more NIL money.
—Maxwell Millington, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
The intense first look at his new film, The Running Man, debuted at CinemaCon on Thursday and introduced Powell's plucky Ben Richards, the hero of Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name, written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
There are plucky steamed chive dumplings with translucent skin, meatball-like shumai teeming with pork, chicken or shrimp, green tea sesame balls (each $1.50 apiece) with Wicked-green dough surrounding sweet black paste.
—Benjy Egel, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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