ragamuffin
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How this riff-drunk ragamuffin, who turns 82 on Dec. 18, not only survived but stayed relevant is a mystery, a puzzle wrapped inside a guitar string.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
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
She would have given anything for a day with Roger and ter Oxford ragamuffin friends, with a battle in the claybeds and a race along the canal.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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