schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl An 11-year-old schoolgirl from Japan has become an international sensation after one of her original songs, composed entirely on an iPad in secret after school, went viral online. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025 Further research says up to 46 percent of schoolgirls felt their breasts were a barrier to exercise. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for schoolgirl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolgirl
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
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    Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Salmon remembers the day, 20 years ago, when the schoolboy Aina came to Chelsea’s attention… LTD stands for Little Thurrock Dynamos.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Imola’s considerable power comes from the 6-liter twin-turbo V12 engineered and built in collaboration with the naughty schoolboys of Affalterbach, Mercedes-AMG.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 May 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
  • The kid gets to fall in love with a free-spirited lass.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As the University of Maryland's graduating class prepares to leap into the next stage of life, Kermit the Frog left the students with a message of connection and love.
    Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2025
  • In October 2019, the mother of four — who shares North West, 11, Saint West, 9, Chicago West, 7, and Psalm West, 6, with ex-husband Kanye West — dressed as the fictional Harvard law school student for Halloween.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • And that, dear reader, is where the danger list comes in.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • These peers became my first readers, accountability buddies, and partners in promoting my book.
    Jaclyn Westlake, CNBC, 24 May 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 3 Jun. 2025.

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