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as in filly
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 girlfriend
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 girl
What kind of barbaric regime puts a school for little girls in a compound that used to be military?
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Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
For girls, Cheryl Miller still holds the most points scored at 41 when Riverside Poly won Division I in 1982 at the Oakland Coliseum over Los Gatos 77-44.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Pew, which is probably the main source of evidence here, in 2024, found that one-quarter of girls say that social media harms their mental health.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
One former chef later told federal investigators how Epstein would take a girl to his master bedroom every hour, and after his massage, the maids would go make the bed and clean up.
—Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
The next day, Shajareh Tayyebeh, a girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab, was hit in the first wave of strikes on Iran.
—Mahsa Alimardani, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Too soon, just days after an American missile likely killed 175 people at a girls school in Iran?
—Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
There’s the kind of tough bad girl, Mira.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
During the fight, one girl was seen being slammed to the ground, with a loud bang heard in the footage.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
For girls, Cheryl Miller still holds the most points scored at 41 when Riverside Poly won Division I in 1982 at the Oakland Coliseum over Los Gatos 77-44.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Pew, which is probably the main source of evidence here, in 2024, found that one-quarter of girls say that social media harms their mental health.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
One former chef later told federal investigators how Epstein would take a girl to his master bedroom every hour, and after his massage, the maids would go make the bed and clean up.
—Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
The next day, Shajareh Tayyebeh, a girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab, was hit in the first wave of strikes on Iran.
—Mahsa Alimardani, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Too soon, just days after an American missile likely killed 175 people at a girls school in Iran?
—Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
There’s the kind of tough bad girl, Mira.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
During the fight, one girl was seen being slammed to the ground, with a loud bang heard in the footage.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girl
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Their friendship is put to the test when Ayman meets Sara, the daughter of a wealthy family, for whom his mother works as a maid.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2026
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His painting shows a maid and two blue collar workers in the foreground with the modern city skyline behind them.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee
March 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
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An undefeated filly won the $100,000 Dixie Belle Stakes on Saturday, just not the one that most bettors expected.—
Bob Wisener,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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Thurby, a celebration of Kentucky’s heritage featuring live entertainment; and the Kentucky Oaks, a race for 3-year-old fillies (female horses).—
Chase Jordan
February 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Battle also alleges that Rojas asked him to spy for her by tracking when Dear’s girlfriend or wife would leave.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Jiménez was in his apartment with his girlfriend when agents grabbed him.—
Laura Rodríguez Presa,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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The show is also virtually devoid of romantic escapades, a good thing since Dumas’ novel is filled with a lot of sentimental claptrap about fighting for defenseless women’s honor or seducing virtuous maidens or going to war due to the physical beauty of a monarch.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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The court maidens this year are Kennedy Kuntz and Sidney Hoover.—
Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Dec. 2025
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Mumma, 44, is charged with tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of Gratton, a 34-year-old transgender woman from Denver who disappeared in April and was found dead in a Lakewood alley in June.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
12 Mar. 2026
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The results showed that women eventually diagnosed with either of these two conditions — 849 with mild cognitive impairment and 752 with dementia — had larger amounts of p-tau217 in their initial blood sample way back in the mid-to-late 1990s.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Girl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girl. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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