tomboy
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Tracye, who describes herself as the tomboy of the group, reminisces on being dressed as what she calls a little jester one year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Da Brat said she had been fortunate to have the producer Jermaine Dupri as a mentor who never tried to change her tomboy image during the height of her career.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 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
But we shouldn’t let the old-school tomboys in pop culture fade away in the process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Growing up in Northern California’s Grass Valley, Streicher and her sisters were self-described tomboys who never spent that long getting ready.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
And the motherly looking woman wondered why the tomboys all burst into a fit of uncontrollable giggling.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp
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