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pluck up

verb

  1. to pull out; uproot
  2. to muster (courage, one's spirits, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Following a speedy rise, Tom played in a World Cup final in 2019 at the age of 21, which his brother was allowed to watch after a social media campaign #GetBenToJapan helped him pluck up the courage to ask if he could miss Sale's game against Bristol to travel to Japan.

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who has so far resisted calls to reinstate Ms Abbott as a Labour MP - said the PM should pluck up the "courage to hand back the £10m".

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It had taken me a year to pluck up the courage to tell him that I was engaging in self-induced vomiting, food restriction and laxative and diuretic abuse.

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It took me 10 minutes to pluck up the courage to call him, to ask if he and his partner were all right.

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"In my case, I was 14 and 15, for me to pluck up the courage - I didn't even tell my family," he said.

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