pluckier; pluckiest
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For a while, strategic defeat loomed, with US and NATO aid to plucky, tiny Ukraine allowing Kyiv to achieve victories unthinkable a year earlier.
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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
The original movie is simultaneously at its best and its worst during a sequence when Yongary inexplicably dances to surf rock alongside the plucky young boy protagonist.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Researchers did acoustic analyses on samples of birds imitating the plucky droid that were already available online to compare how statistically similar each bird’s noises were to a model of R2-D2’s sounds.
—Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
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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
The original movie is simultaneously at its best and its worst during a sequence when Yongary inexplicably dances to surf rock alongside the plucky young boy protagonist.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Researchers did acoustic analyses on samples of birds imitating the plucky droid that were already available online to compare how statistically similar each bird’s noises were to a model of R2-D2’s sounds.
—Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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