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as in maidens
a young unmarried woman
he's engaged to a girl that his parents really like
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as in fillies
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood
when I was a girl, I wanted a horse so badly
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as in girlfriends
a female romantic companion
found an old letter by my grandfather asking my grandmother to be his girl
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Recent Examples of girls
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a non-profit research organization, has tracked nihilistic attacks across the globe, including stabbings in Sweden by teenagers associated with a group called No Lives Matter, and the killing of three girls in northern England.
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Curt Devine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
The Central Yellowjackets won a back-and-forth game over the Manual Crimsons in KHSAA Seventh Region girls basketball.
—Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Feb. 2026
Jennifer Grey is glowing on a girls’ getaway.
—Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The files reveal the web of rich, powerful people Epstein used to exploit young women and girls, and show that Mountbatten-Windsor’s close relationship with Epstein continued even after the financier was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008.
—Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Attending under-14 girls’ games at Tottenham Hotspur is quite another.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Eleven young Tennysons spilled out of the Somersby rectory—seven boys and four girls, with Alfred third from the top.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Advertisement Figure skating places scrutiny on young girls within the sport, like two-time Team USA Olympian Alysa Liu.
—Jasmine Wynn, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
Only once since 1996 has a player repeated as the CIF San Diego Section girls soccer player of the year.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Curt Devine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
The Central Yellowjackets won a back-and-forth game over the Manual Crimsons in KHSAA Seventh Region girls basketball.
—Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Feb. 2026
Jennifer Grey is glowing on a girls’ getaway.
—Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The files reveal the web of rich, powerful people Epstein used to exploit young women and girls, and show that Mountbatten-Windsor’s close relationship with Epstein continued even after the financier was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008.
—Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Attending under-14 girls’ games at Tottenham Hotspur is quite another.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Eleven young Tennysons spilled out of the Somersby rectory—seven boys and four girls, with Alfred third from the top.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Advertisement Figure skating places scrutiny on young girls within the sport, like two-time Team USA Olympian Alysa Liu.
—Jasmine Wynn, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
Only once since 1996 has a player repeated as the CIF San Diego Section girls soccer player of the year.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girls
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This is a 1,000 year old tradition where two maidens are chosen to be slaughtered as repentance to one of their goddesses.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Prized 2-year-olds trained by Bob Baffert ran an impressive 1-2 in their debuts in Sunday’s opening race, a six-furlong test for maidens.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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Sunday finale Brown is seeking his seventh Matriarch win in nine years Sunday in the one-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Nov. 2025
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The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.—
Kevin Modesti,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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Some older creep takes you aside and teaches you how to manipulate your girlfriends like a narcissistic abuse apprenticeship program?—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026
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His girlfriends include Beverly Johnson, Margaux Hemingway, Princess Soraya, and Liv Ullmann.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
9 Feb. 2026
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But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
2 Feb. 2026
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In Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s, a young white woman teams up with two Black maids to document the realities of domestic work in segregated households.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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For six days, gay men and women, transgender people, bikers, street kids and others fed up with police harassment fought back.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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The massacre prompted a national reckoning about violence against women and led to tighter gun laws.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Girls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girls. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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