ragamuffin
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How did Great Britain, possessing both an empire on which the sun never set and the greatest navy the world had ever seen, lose to ragamuffin American rebels?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
To some, he was a rollicking drifter in ragamuffin punk tatters.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023
A ragamuffin looking for a meal, Eurydice receives instead a feast of affection that includes a proposition of marriage.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2022
After some pirate shenanigans, and a switcheroo of cargo between two ships, the amusingly convoluted plot lands Peter, his two ragamuffin pals and the very plucky and initially condescending Molly into many a threatening jam.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2016
Babci sat at her kitchen table, wearing one of my grandfather’s old dress shirts, her hair half up and half down, the picture of a ragamuffin.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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