pluckier; pluckiest
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Whether that introduction strikes you as impossibly naïve or a requisite leap of faith will determine if Ella McCay, both the film and the plucky protagonist, rings true.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
Decades after Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata helped enshrine a plucky Nova Scotian orphan in the minds of Japanese and international audiences, a new Anne of Green Gables adaptation recaptures that story’s appeal.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
For a while, strategic defeat loomed, with US and NATO aid to plucky, tiny Ukraine allowing Kyiv to achieve victories unthinkable a year earlier.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Beyond also taps into James Cameron's Aliens by featuring a plucky crew of space marines who are likewise stranded on the planet.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
Decades after Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata helped enshrine a plucky Nova Scotian orphan in the minds of Japanese and international audiences, a new Anne of Green Gables adaptation recaptures that story’s appeal.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
For a while, strategic defeat loomed, with US and NATO aid to plucky, tiny Ukraine allowing Kyiv to achieve victories unthinkable a year earlier.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Beyond also taps into James Cameron's Aliens by featuring a plucky crew of space marines who are likewise stranded on the planet.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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