"plucking" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb, to mean taking or pulling out something rapidly with a quick movement of the fingers. For example, "She plucked a flower from the bouquet and put it in her hair."
Bad news, then, for anyone thinking of opening a theme park, but good news for the job prospects of anyone plucking feathers at an effects workshop.
And if they do, they'll be so busy plucking at their poxy sequins on their new dress you'll have plenty of time to think of a satisfying retort·.
Football is a better game with players like Clark bravely plucking marks out of the pack.
We wondered – plucking several descriptions out of thin air charged with electric ions – whether we should proceed by labelling it folk noir, avant-acoustica, ballad oscuro, Nico in trip-hop hell, or susurrating 21st century shadowplay?
The latest rescue brings the total number of people saved by HMS Bulwark to more than 2,700, with it plucking 747 people from dangerously overcrowded boats in a similar operation last week.
The plucking model presumes that after a recession, the economy returns to an underlying trend rate of growth that is determined by the supply of workers, capital and technology.
Because picking apples is very different to plucking strawberries, the machines are taking various forms.
In recent years, Microsoft has taken to plucking recruits straight from the university, which has the only fully American-accredited computer studies programme overseas.
But a receiver armed with the same pseudo-random code can "de-spread" the signal in effect, plucking it from the background hiss.UWB chips based on this principle were developed by XtremeSpectrum, a start-up based in Vienna, Virginia.
