tousle
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“She has expensive taste,” Nelson laughed, kneeling down to tousle Sadie’s fur.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
"You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
Clamped atop a tousle of silver hair, he wore a Thug Life snapback cap, label left on.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020
With his Little Prince notebook and his 2am tousle, he could still pass for a student, even at 42, with a shelf full of silverware.
From The Guardian • May 10, 2019
“This one’s my boy,” he said to Sophie and me, reaching up to tousle Francis’s hair.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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