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
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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
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