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Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl.
—Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Consider Nigeria—after the extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April 2014, Nigerian activists took to social media, launching the #BringBackOurGirls campaign to bring worldwide attention to the plight of these girls and push for their release.
—Pardis Mahdavi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2018
She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl.
—Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Consider Nigeria—after the extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April 2014, Nigerian activists took to social media, launching the #BringBackOurGirls campaign to bring worldwide attention to the plight of these girls and push for their release.
—Pardis Mahdavi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2018
She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Schoolgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolgirl. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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schoolgirl
noun
school·girl
-ˌgər(-ə)l 
: a girl attending school
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