tomboy
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Zwick got his start on the ABC domestic drama “Family,” which starred Kristy McNichol as a tomboy named Buddy Lawrence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
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
The two aging men saw her through her loneliest and most difficult hours, through the malignant limbo of turning from a howling tomboy into a young woman.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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
It rocked the literary landscape and elevated tomboys to the top of the heroine heap, as Jo March inspired generations of early feminists to be forthright and assertive, and to reject traditional, passive femininity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
“So tomboys are in the middle?” one girl asked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
The twins meanwhile grew up—two frolicksome, apple-cheeked tomboys, for whom no tree was too high, no ditch too deep.
From Dame Care by Overbeck, Bertha
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