tomboy
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“Nature has always been in my bones, in my cells,” Fonda said in a recent interview, describing herself as an environmentalist since her tomboy youth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
"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
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
The idea of a concert career for me appealed to his vision of himself as a poet and of me as more than a spunky tomboy.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
Next, they discuss tomboys, jumping off of a recent New York Times op-ed.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2020
But we shouldn’t let the old-school tomboys in pop culture fade away in the process.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
With regular tomboys, such as we saw last year in Rathaus Park, it would be different.
From A Young Girl's Diary by Eden Paul
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