schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl Pip is researching an unusual school project which revolves around the disappearance of schoolgirl named Andie Bell, who went missing five years prior in Little Kilton. Monica Mercuri, StyleCaster, 1 July 2024 The indictment comes nearly 30 years after three US servicemen raped a 12-year-old Okinawa schoolgirl in 1995, sparking a backlash against the US military on the island. Lex Harvey, CNN, 27 June 2024 Evelyn is at a turning point—no longer a schoolgirl, starting to outgrow the narrowness of her family life. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024 Movements with large numbers of female participants also tend to be perceived as more legitimate in the eyes of observers, who often respond to the symbolic power of grandmothers and schoolgirls protesting bravely. Zoe Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for schoolgirl 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolgirl
Noun
  • 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
  • Add youthful superstardom and time served with your glamour photos on the walls and in the hearts and minds of teenyboppers and all the varying forms of attention that superstardom brings, both good and bad.
    cleveland, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • If only my schoolboy self had had the same experience with Dickens.
    Robert Johnston, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The initial libel case related to Robinson making false accusations against a Syrian schoolboy who was attacked in an incident shared widely on social media.
    Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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
  • The search for, and then bonding with, the young lass understandably got Gibbs reflecting on the tragic loss of his daughter Kelly, in the same car crash that killed his wife Shannon.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 29 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Some questions critics of the system hoped to answer, such as whether the system itself is helping or harming student learning or is biased against more disadvantaged students, were not addressed.
    Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella.
    Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
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    Allison Mashell Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Featured readers include Juan Carlos Reyes, Angela Garbes, Marcus Harrison Green, Jordynn Paz, Rena Priest, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
    Christine Clarridge, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But among day students, Heff was something of an aristocrat.
    Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
  • At the start of the school day students slip their phone into the pouch.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024

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“Schoolgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolgirl. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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