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
It was the late 1970s, punk was sliding into new wave, and Leonard and her friends, including the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, were, by Leonard’s account, “wild little ragamuffin children.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
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
Occasionally some ragamuffin troupe would mum a play on a street corner or I’d hear a fiddler in a pub.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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