pigtail
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A wiry longtime martial arts practitioner who sometimes wears his hair in long pigtail braids, the 53-year-old Nguyen plays the role of firearms sensei.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Mitchell sat in the centre, wearing a pink floral silk shirt, with her hair in pigtail braids under a purple beret, and carrying a cane adorned with a small bear's head.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023
Although the servers’ pigtail stories are far from scientific, experts aren’t surprised.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
Same size, different headers, but there’s a pigtail of breakout cables that do most of the same things.
From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2021
Finally, I tied a white ribbon around each pigtail before twisting my hair and snapping a barrette on each end.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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But "when I'm with Hyodol, I never get hurt", she said, holding the cuddly doll with pigtails and a pink gingham dress, provided by her local municipality.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Lancashire, who appeared at the hearing via a video link from HMP Peterborough, wore her brown hair in pigtails - one tied with a pink ribbon and one with a blue ribbon.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Now he is raising a 4-year-old daughter with the help of Barnica’s younger brother; every weekend, they take her to see her grandmother, who knows how to braid her hair in pigtails.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Class photos shared from over the years showed Shaylee in second grade, wearing pigtails, and years later, with highlights in her hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
They saw snakes, pigtails, branchy, forked things that looked like the letter Y, and they noticed squiggles like a small g, and bends like the letter U, and loopy 6s.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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