cowboy
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“You’re in this cowboy place, but then you search it and there’s 30 million people living there,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Leaseholders will be given extra protections from "cowboy" property agents and hidden fees, Angela Rayner has announced.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Campbell, a Dallas native, doesn’t own a pair of dress shoes and has been known to wear cowboy boots to court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
I could just make out a cowboy hat as the sliding doors closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“They show that in cowboy movies all the time,” Logan blurts out.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
She said the sector had many decent businesses which were "undermined by far too many cowboys, crooks and con artists".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The prime minister said rogue tradespeople gave their "decent, hardworking" counterparts a bad name and would be "putting the cowboys out of business".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Hollywood was founded by daredevils, from the cowboys who galloped here to become stuntmen, to the small-town girls who bucked the pressure to get married and moved west to chase a one-in-a-million dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
With their flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group became a pop culture phenomenon, targeting disco's large gay audience with camp fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“And those cowboys and Indians. What kind of place is that for a child to grow up in? Dodging bullets and arrows?”
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
