pluckier; pluckiest
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Netflix One of the few original titles announced for 2026, Love Through a Prism follows the plucky and artistically inclined Lili Ichijoin, a Japanese foreign student who enrolls in an art school in London in the early 1900s.
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
Scores of plucky swimmers plunged into 2026 early Thursday by stripping to their bathing suits in the near-freezing temperatures at DeLeon Springs State Park and jumping into the steamy water.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
Starz Someone Like You (2001) New Year's Eve rolls around, and our hero, Jane (the plucky Ashley Judd), gets stood up by her bad-news ex-boyfriend/colleague, Ray (Greg Kinnear).
—Kate Stroup, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, Jacoby Brissett and the semi-plucky Cardinals have lost too many players to the blue tent and the sideline.
—Vic Tafur, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2025
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
Scores of plucky swimmers plunged into 2026 early Thursday by stripping to their bathing suits in the near-freezing temperatures at DeLeon Springs State Park and jumping into the steamy water.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
Starz Someone Like You (2001) New Year's Eve rolls around, and our hero, Jane (the plucky Ashley Judd), gets stood up by her bad-news ex-boyfriend/colleague, Ray (Greg Kinnear).
—Kate Stroup, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, Jacoby Brissett and the semi-plucky Cardinals have lost too many players to the blue tent and the sideline.
—Vic Tafur, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2025
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“Plucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plucky. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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