tomboy
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She is the consummate cool girl: 33 years old, both a total hottie and a total tomboy, unable to do things like make a real meal or read a book.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
But I always felt a particular closeness to Queen Latifah, maybe because she's from Jersey and I'm from Philly, but also because I was a tomboy when I was young.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2023
Lister, a precocious tomboy who seemingly knows something about everything, and Raine, a half-Indian heiress born out of wedlock, were fellow outcasts who found each other at the Manor School in 1805.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
He felt like saying aloud what was going on would lock his whole family into a future—solidify that, no, his kid was not just a tomboy, and this was not just a phase.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023
The idea of a concert career for me appealed to his vision of himself as a poet and of me as more than a spunky tomboy.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Born 10 years earlier, we would have been called tomboys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
The sisters, who were "tomboys from the time we were little kids", were "constantly reminded we don't fit in," says Alisa.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
Next, they discuss tomboys, jumping off of a recent New York Times op-ed.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2020
Growing up in Northern California’s Grass Valley, Streicher and her sisters were self-described tomboys who never spent that long getting ready.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
And the motherly looking woman wondered why the tomboys all burst into a fit of uncontrollable giggling.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
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