Michael Winter

Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

Canadian Writer

Jack Monroe

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

British Journalist

Stephen Hendry

I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.

Scottish Entertainer

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

American Businessman

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

American Comedian

Colin Cowherd

I mean ESPN plucked me out of nowhere and I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. I don't love the way it ended. But I'm not a grudge-holder.

American Entertainer

Amy Lee

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

American Musician

Ellen Key

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Swedish Writer

Doug Liman

I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.

American Director

James A. Garfield

American President

Often used when talking about picking plants or parts of plants.

Natural Context

Implies a careful, sometimes affectionate action, different from a rough pull.

Gentle Action

Specific to preparing birds for cooking, indicates the task before cooking.

Preparation Stage

Relates to playing stringed instruments, creating sound without a bow.

Musical Technique

Plucking strings often gives a shorter, more percussive sound than bowing.

Sound Quality

Used to admire someone's bravery in challenging situations.

Positive Attribute

Usually refers to the practice of tweezing unwanted hair for neatness.

Personal Grooming

It indicates a precise and careful action, often requiring a tool like tweezers.

Delicacy Required

 because they just plucked up the courage to come right up to the camera so the camera did give us the opportunity to find out a bit more about them i think from our point of view what's gonna be interesting is you know will these be the hyenas of the future that might visit our waterhole after a few months they will go out with those adults and there's every

Young Hyena Breaks...

 I see a world where we can reactivate any kind of memory that we'd like. I also see a world where we can erase unwanted memories. Now, I even see a world where editing memories is something of a reality, because we're living in a time where it's possible to pluck questions from the tree of science fiction and to ground them in experimental reality.

Steve Ramirez and Xu...

 centers around the potential of Pip, an orphan plucked from obscurity by an anonymous benefactor and propelled into high society. In his search for purpose, Pip becomes the victim of other people’s ambitions for him and must negotiate with a shadowy cast of characters.

Why should you read...

 String instruments are plucked or bowed. Woodwinds have air blown against a reed or sharp edge. For brass instruments, however, the vibration come directly from the musician's mouth. One of the first things a brass player must learn is to breathe in deeply,

How brass instruments...

 but to find out what it's uniquely well-suited to help us with. Here's an example. We started with a pest, a wasp that lives on many of our homes. Inside that wasp, we plucked out a little-known microorganism species with a unique

Meet the microscopic...

 nor do we now want to get in the way and pluck genocidaires from camps. So then you have to make the decision. Do you turn off the international spigot of life support and risk two million civilian lives?

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 because randomness cannot be manufactured by a machine it has to be plucked from the universe so isn't it wonderful to think that when we gaze into the night sky we see a universe

Creating true randomness...

 OK, so the first thing I'm going to do is one of the most important things is to have the genetic samples. So I'm going to pluck the tail feather first. Sorry, guy.

Feathers in Flight: The...

 get a grip she needs to pluck up her courage and quite literally sink her teeth into the problem

Leopard Family Learns to...

 takis encouragement obviously helped because now sambal finally plucked up