tomboy
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Tracye, who describes herself as the tomboy of the group, reminisces on being dressed as what she calls a little jester one year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Da Brat said she had been fortunate to have the producer Jermaine Dupri as a mentor who never tried to change her tomboy image during the height of her career.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
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
Bilham, of Bunbury Road, Alpraham, admitted to the court that she had always been a bit of a tomboy.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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
Like most fictional tomboys until then, Jo was a white, working-class brunette with a blond, rich girly-girl nemesis, Blair.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
“So tomboys are in the middle?” one girl asked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
Child as he was, his propensities were too much limited by the bounds of the town-house and garden, and the society of his sisters, one too old and one too young to serve as tomboys.
From The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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