schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl 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 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 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
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    Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Flintoff returned to screen last year for the second series of Field of Dreams, following his experiences taking a group of schoolboys and inspiring them with a series of cricket tutorials.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Max Harris, a 14-year-old schoolboy from Gnosall, near Stafford, was in the front row of the Cobbold Stand when Jorgen Strand Larsen bundled home the goal that earned Wolves a 2-1 win and 12-point advantage over the relegation zone with seven games remaining.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 7 Apr. 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
  • Last month, when a newspaper published a photo of a campus protest, an international student appeared in the background.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • However, according to Johnson, students will have more success by shaping their identity first and then searching for a fit.
    Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But parents of the most avid and successful readers don’t save reading for bedtime.
    Maya Payne Smart, Contributor, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Stop by readers' favorite The Floyd Country Store in Virginia to experience their Friday Night Jamboree in all its glory.
    Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 19 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 3 May. 2025.

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