pluckier; pluckiest
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Once the hottest team in the league, the plucky Canadiens have now lost four straight, which is going to make their path to the postseason far more tricky.
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James Mirtle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 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, 28 Mar. 2025
With tangible social and political changes on the galactic table, the next Mass Effect could avoid the universe-building self-limitations of recent late sequel efforts (again, looking at you, Star Wars and your sequel trilogy rehash of the plucky Rebels vs. evil Empire scenario).
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2025
This was Madness, where a lax effort against a plucky underdog meant the death of a season.
—Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
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James Mirtle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 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, 28 Mar. 2025
With tangible social and political changes on the galactic table, the next Mass Effect could avoid the universe-building self-limitations of recent late sequel efforts (again, looking at you, Star Wars and your sequel trilogy rehash of the plucky Rebels vs. evil Empire scenario).
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2025
This was Madness, where a lax effort against a plucky underdog meant the death of a season.
—Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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