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Adjective (2)
she was a scrappy girl despite—or, perhaps, because of—her small size
a pair of scrappy movie critics who can never agree on anything
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Julia Ranney, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC interpreter vendor to an operating system kingpin, an internet also-ran, a stagnating giant, and now a cloud computing and AI player worth almost $3 trillion.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
Encourage an entrepreneurial spirit internally to challenge the status quo, solve unmet needs and harness resources with scrappy execution.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
But even as rescuers have tried to bring her to safety, so far, the scrappy pooch has eluded capture.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
To succeed against top-tier competition in July, England will need more than scrappy conversions and predictable crosses.
—Julia Ranney, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC interpreter vendor to an operating system kingpin, an internet also-ran, a stagnating giant, and now a cloud computing and AI player worth almost $3 trillion.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
Encourage an entrepreneurial spirit internally to challenge the status quo, solve unmet needs and harness resources with scrappy execution.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
But even as rescuers have tried to bring her to safety, so far, the scrappy pooch has eluded capture.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Scrappy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrappy. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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