tomboy
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“Nature has always been in my bones, in my cells,” Fonda said in a recent interview, describing herself as an environmentalist since her tomboy youth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
She is the consummate cool girl: 33 years old, both a total hottie and a total tomboy, unable to do things like make a real meal or read a book.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 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
“If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what am I, please?” asked Beth, ready to share the lecture.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
When Jo joined “The Facts of Life” in 1980 for its second season, she was among many tomboys on the big and small screen in that era.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Growing up in Northern California’s Grass Valley, Streicher and her sisters were self-described tomboys who never spent that long getting ready.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
And the motherly looking woman wondered why the tomboys all burst into a fit of uncontrollable giggling.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp
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