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plucks

  • present tense form of pluck (3rd person singular).

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Plucks of electric guitar work that instrument for all its echoey melancholy.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2017

Plucks the midpoint of the dodgy block of deals at 58 and the more rational set at 58.5, sets the price at 58.25 and we all head for the door.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2012

Plucks from his neck the chain that's pendant there.…

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Ever the Mighty Chooser Plucks when the fruit is ripe, Scorning the mass and letting it pass, Keen for the cryptic type.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle