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pluck·ing
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pluckingnoun
An act in which something is plucked
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Plucking
of Pluck
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of plucking in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of plucking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of plucking in a Sentence
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
Of course, voluntary income tax [ is ] not a fixed rate, and they don't have to declare how much income they're making their tax on. So actually it's just like plucking a figure out of thin air.
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
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