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Recent Examples of gamine
Sara—my gamine friend who had accompanied me to Slamdance, a budding film editrix—took the desk next to mine.
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Lena Dunham, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Think: vintage pin-curls on Teyana Taylor, a gamine cut on FKA Twigs, and Doja Cat’s blonde curls.
—Essence, 18 Dec. 2025
Fast-forward to the following decade, when the gap-toothed gamine abandoned her heavy hand to embrace a more au naturel approach.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
—Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2025
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Lena Dunham, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Think: vintage pin-curls on Teyana Taylor, a gamine cut on FKA Twigs, and Doja Cat’s blonde curls.
—Essence, 18 Dec. 2025
Fast-forward to the following decade, when the gap-toothed gamine abandoned her heavy hand to embrace a more au naturel approach.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
—Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamine
Noun
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Everyone was chasing a waif look.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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More like a woman who had written a book and less like a lost waif.—
Allegra Goodman,
Vogue,
12 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Pink styled her blonde hair in her signature pixie cut, framing her face with a rose gold iridescent glam.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
7 June 2026
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In the heyday of her career, her choppy hair, flat chest, sickly pallor and large darting eyes were a manic pixie dream.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
Noun
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Freed from predation, purple urchins razed vast swaths of kelp unchecked.—
Tatjana Baleta,
Time,
28 May 2026
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Cala Gaetano is the most breathtaking of all, both in awe and anxiety, where slippery steps without any barriers bring you to a secluded cove speckled with urchins.—
Kristina Kasparian,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There’s often a tomboy sensibility at play too, with vintage tees and lightly distressed knits.—
Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
25 May 2026
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There is no benign male version of tomboy.—
Adam Stanaland,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Rudeness is of course still frowned upon, and sometimes hoydens behaved in ways that are rude by today’s standards – a girl who pushed another out of her seat at school was a hoyden in 1865.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 May 2018
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But since earning a fourth star at the 2014 edition in Brazil — which included an epic 7-1 romp over the hosts in the semifinals — winning hasn’t come easy for Die Mannschaft.—
Andy Clayton,
New York Daily News,
10 June 2026
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Mexico enters the World Cup riding an eight-game unbeaten streak, including wins against tournament participants Australia (1-0) and Ghana (2-0) in May and a 5-1 romp over Serbia last week.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamine. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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