pluckier; pluckiest
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Unlike a killer hiding in the woods, a guy who gets you in your dreams is literally impossible to hide from, and watching our plucky heroine Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) trying to resist sleep presents a new kind of awful torture.
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Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
The Lions will bounce back from a loss by covering the spread against the plucky Buccaneers, and the Colts are just better across the board right now than the Chargers.
—Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Murphy has been leaning into the idea that the Brewers are a plucky underdog who no one believes in, while the Dodgers are the powerhouse expected to squash their competition.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Maddie’s Secret follows Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
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Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
The Lions will bounce back from a loss by covering the spread against the plucky Buccaneers, and the Colts are just better across the board right now than the Chargers.
—Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Murphy has been leaning into the idea that the Brewers are a plucky underdog who no one believes in, while the Dodgers are the powerhouse expected to squash their competition.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Maddie’s Secret follows Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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