cowboy
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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
When former leader Deng Xiaoping toured the U.S. in 1979, eager to bind a reforming China to the West, he famously donned a 10-gallon cowboy hat at a Texas rodeo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The UK government last month announced plans to give people greater protections against "cowboy builders" through a database of trusted traders.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The women wear boxy blue dresses and polka-dot kerchiefs covering their hair, and the men wear jeans and plaid shirts and cowboy hats.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
Back then, Folger says, the rural western outpost was filled with "back-to-the-land hippies, college students, cowboys and ski bums".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
These drives fueled the American fascination with cowboys, but the work was hardly romantic.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
