pluckier; pluckiest
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Where to watch: The CW, Amazon Prime Sanditon Based on Jane Austen’s final unfinished novel of the same name, Sanditon has all the author’s requisite traits: a plucky heroine, a bevy of handsome suitors, and plenty of Regency-era drama.
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Cady Lang, TIME, 16 May 2024
Elon Musk’s company, which went from plucky startup to the dominant force in commercial space transport, showed diagrams of its two spaceship types, the Dragon and much larger Starship, also noting four possible missions.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
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Cady Lang, TIME, 16 May 2024
Elon Musk’s company, which went from plucky startup to the dominant force in commercial space transport, showed diagrams of its two spaceship types, the Dragon and much larger Starship, also noting four possible missions.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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