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Recent Examples of pigtail
Equally unhinged is her extraordinarily long white wig, sometimes styled with braided pigtails.
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Jihane Bousfiha, Vulture, 2 July 2025
This marvel of engineering shows off the profile of Washington (west of the main memorial entrance) and rock formations including the Needle’s Eye and Cathedral Spires, Black Hills overlooks, switchback climbs and pigtail bridges.
—Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Hayden said to Costa that her love for reading was sparked by the 1946 children’s book Bright April, which followed a Black Girl Scout with pigtails and her family.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2025
Other braids seen on the runway included messy, pulled out pigtails and tiny face-framing plaits.
—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
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Jihane Bousfiha, Vulture, 2 July 2025
This marvel of engineering shows off the profile of Washington (west of the main memorial entrance) and rock formations including the Needle’s Eye and Cathedral Spires, Black Hills overlooks, switchback climbs and pigtail bridges.
—Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Hayden said to Costa that her love for reading was sparked by the 1946 children’s book Bright April, which followed a Black Girl Scout with pigtails and her family.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2025
Other braids seen on the runway included messy, pulled out pigtails and tiny face-framing plaits.
—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigtail
Noun
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The crowds thinned, the queues got easier, and the audiences lost their initial edge-of-seat poise, relaxing back into their seats.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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As long as buyers and sellers continue the 75-year trend of negotiating against the Nielsen data, the league will have to join the queue with everyone else who expresses dissatisfaction with the company’s audience-measurement system.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the first film, released in July 2020, the 33-year-old actor wore cornrows.—
Taryn Finley,
refinery29.com,
10 July 2025
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After not being able to find a barber in Philly, growing his hair out as a Rookie turned cornrows into his signature, starting with a black headband and straightbacks during the 1997 NBA All-Star Weekend.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
6 June 2025
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“Pigtail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigtail. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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