ragamuffin
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How could we still be cute ragamuffins, or sensationalized versions of Eagles fans past, if after NFC championship blowouts we run down Broad Street and climb light poles?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2023
Despite the scorn of critics, paintings of ragamuffins with giant staring eyes, some holding a kitten or puppy, mostly signed just “Keane,” appeared in cocktail lounges and suburban homes across America.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2022
Harry Ostro, the beloved Brooklyn high school football coach who launched working-class ragamuffins into manhood, would have appreciated the teamwork involved in his burial with full military honors.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2015
"We, the famished, ragged ragamuffins of the East are to win freedom for all humanity!" he wrote during the war.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2015
From each side street hordes of little ragamuffins emerged to swell the main tide.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing ragamuffin
"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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