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verb

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Recent Examples of pluck
Noun
But Belvidere is roaring back because of its own pluck. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025 In Spanish, my grandmother read tales from Las Mil y Una Noches—in English, The Thousand and One Nights—bringing the world beyond Leigh Street, Scheherazade's magical world of Central Asian pluck, heroism and ingenuity, into the life of my mother and her siblings. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Verb
Ronan Day-Lewis seems to have plucked and pruned the best lessons from them, too. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Sep. 2025 You got plucked from obscurity to do this project. Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pluck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pluck
Noun
  • That push-and-pull has often forced officials to walk a fine line of calling for change but stifling talk of gun control.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The meat always turns out perfectly pull-apart tender.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Right now, people want moral courage and clear calls to action.
    Sarah Stankorb, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Even in antiquity, some thinkers embodied this courage.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Reds squeezed into the third wild-card slot for their first playoff appearance in five years.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Some people who have bought homes in the last few years feel squeezed by monthly payments that leave little cash left over.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Firefly makes rockets, space tugs and lunar landers.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There is a tug of war underway for their hearts and minds.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, the team has shown plenty of grit through four games thus far.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • On the menu, find everything from crawfish eggrolls to Cajun shrimp and grits to burgers to pork chops.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Still, losing out on more seasons of Zoë Kravitz playing a lovably bisexual mess navigating New York City particularly stings.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • Andreas Helmersen hit the bar while Patrick Berg’s stinging effort was saved by Guglielmo Vicario.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Effectively, this turned the workspace into a yank buffer along with all your documents, and undoing any destructive editing operation thus became merely another cut and paste.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Visitors to China will want to lighten their grip, while folks introducing themselves to Germans should know to stop after one firm downward yank.
    Chris Ciolli, AFAR Media, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Their fortitude resulted in a thoughtful, lyrically dense project that ‘Nandez likens to a collection of personal and political anecdotes rapped on production that Preservation built around ‘Nandez baritone vocal tone.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But the trip is going to be an extreme test of fortitude, fate, and faith, evidenced by Lionsgate's preview revealing obstacles including a hellish radiation storm, monster waves, meteors pummeling the Earth, and lethal bands of desperate survivors prowling the continent.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Pluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pluck. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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