damsels

plural of damsel

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Recent Examples of damsels Dark Towers, crooked wizard towers, towers with damsels in distress. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damsels
Noun
  • Girl Scout cookie season remains a powerful way for young girls to build confidence and business skills through hands-on entrepreneurship.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • While Tuesday’s report covers the experiences of more than 350 women who came forward to speak to the investigators, Danish authorities say more than 4,000 women and girls — reportedly half the fertile women in Greenland at the time — received IUDs between the 1960s and mid-1970s.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Damsels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damsels. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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