tomboy
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"I thought I was the tomboy, the only girl that played in the football team, then this little upstart popped up," Westbury tells BBC Sport.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
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
Mother claims I have the manners of a wild animal myself, as I am a tomboy, but I never fail to be respectful of my father’s garden.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
Surely her Laura was not in the least like these Western tomboys!
From The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series by Vandercook, Margaret
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