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rough-and-tumble

[ruhf-uhn-tuhm-buhl] / ˈrʌf ənˈtʌm bəl /


NOUN
rough, unrestrained fighting
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If EVs are coming for the world, this is the rough-and-tumble frontier.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Abstraction meets landscape; painterly application meets rough-and-tumble applications.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Whether it’s about Indigenous people and what they had to go through under cowboys, or reclaiming the cowboy spirit of what America was built on — this kind of rough-and-tumble existence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

Sloan’s rough-and-tumble peekaboo game is exemplary for a first-timer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

If there was anything that terrified us as much as getting deported, it was that the principal's office would discover our address scam and send us down the road to the rough-and-tumble streets of Cupertino.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi




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