schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl Oryol oblast in central Russia has made an amendment to an existing government program and will allow schoolgirls to receive payment for becoming pregnant in an effort to boost the country's birth rate, according to a decree signed by Andrei Klychkov, the governor of the region, on March 20. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025 Her resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity—surviving a brutal attempt on her life as a schoolgirl simply for wanting an education—taught me the true meaning of courage. The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2025 In another example of Tisch’s argument, a man wanted for several crimes against women, including allegedly groping three schoolgirls, was busted in Queens recently when police first approached him for taking up more than one subway seat. Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025 Image Their redeployment was agreed to in a deal signed 12 years ago, the result of negotiations and renegotiations going back to 1995, when three U.S. servicemen raped an Okinawan schoolgirl. Martin Fackler, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolgirl
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Noun
  • Bed-rotting while watching Grey’s Anatomy, routinely taking breaks between hospital shootings and plane crashes, is a much different experience from devouring eight episodes of a teenybopper show in one sitting.
    Catherine Mhloyi, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Related Video Emma Roberts’s Tote and Purse are Filled With All Her Summer Essentials–Plus a Sweet Treat Beyond their teenybopper appeal, charm bracelets have a storied history in luxury fashion.
    Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • This truth is at the heart of Adolescence, Netflix’s new drama by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham—an impeccable, if harrowing, exploration of the trepidatious transition of boyhood to manhood and the ultimate radicalization of a schoolboy.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2025
  • When a group of schoolboy cricketers founded the club in 1882, their choice of name was ‘Hotspur FC’.
    Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In a trice couples formed, and the dancers whirled away more wildly, more extravagantly than before, for all the lads and lasses were fired with ambition to show us how real Hungarians could dance.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Just imagine how positive so many of Harvard’s alumni, partners, faculty, and current students must feel due to the position taken by the University.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • School of Style The same could perhaps now be said for Zendaya, who arrived at the Los Angeles headquarters of Law Roach’s School of Style–an online styling course that appointed the image architect as its professor in late 2024–to serve as an instructional aid for students.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Some of those backers have been frustrated with his administration's support for policing initiatives like the Fusus surveillance video program and license plate readers.
    Nate Rau, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
  • For readers looking for a little love in their lives — and apparently that's the majority of us — PEOPLE caught up with a number of authors, including Carley Fortune, Jasmine Guillory, and Elle Kennedy, to chat about their favorite romance releases.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Prince and Princess of Wales continue to remain based in Windsor, living at Adelaide Cottage within Windsor Great Park, and George, Charlotte and Louis are day students at the nearby Lambrook School.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But among day students, Heff was something of an aristocrat.
    Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024

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“Schoolgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolgirl. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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