cowboy
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A leather jacket and a pair of black cowboy boots sit on an office wall display.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Known for wearing a cowboy hat and displaying his military medals, Ravalomanana was viewed by protesters as a symbol of authoritarian power.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Often duded up in a cowboy hat and suspenders, Eatherly had a knack for marketing and proved to be an exceptional conman.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
And he liked having meals with his family at what is now the Denny’s in Gower Gulch, a place where aspiring cowboy actors once congregated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
She tried on hats with plumes, straw hats, knit caps, even a cowboy hat from Miss Lilian’s riding days.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Back then, Folger says, the rural western outpost was filled with "back-to-the-land hippies, college students, cowboys and ski bums".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hollywood was founded by daredevils, from the cowboys who galloped here to become stuntmen, to the small-town girls who bucked the pressure to get married and moved west to chase a one-in-a-million dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
With their flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group became a pop culture phenomenon, targeting disco's large gay audience with camp fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
At the time, however, the frontier – with its rugged cowboys, miners and railroad men – defined American manhood.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
If you ask me, he was smarter than some of those cowboys.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
