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Recent Examples of girlhood
An especially visually striking debut, Mosquitoes exists in a saturated hyperreality that is consummately engrossing, and announces the Bertani sisters as formidable portraitists of girlhood cast against the backdrop of an alternately beautiful and oppressive world.
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
On the toy's 40th anniversary, correspondent Faith Salie explores how making history come alive is also creating timeless bonds between generations that celebrate girlhood.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Initially unsure of one another, Agnes and Daisy must nevertheless weather the common tribulations of girlhood together, which take on nightmarish new valences inside Gilead.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
There are some parts of girlhood not even tragedy can suppress.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
In rural Costa Rica, Laura steps out of girlhood and into the world of adults.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
But his lucid, sensitive evocations of Blume’s suburban girlhood should put the question of his ability to rest.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026
After all, Kay had spent her girlhood minding a growing brood of siblings in a series of small Chinatown apartments with a father whose income could not always sustain a family in much comfort.
—Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
Circe and Szu meet as outsiders in their school in Singapore, each other’s only friends, bound by the intense energy of teenage girlhood but also a mutual fascination of Szu’s mother Amisa.
—Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
On the toy's 40th anniversary, correspondent Faith Salie explores how making history come alive is also creating timeless bonds between generations that celebrate girlhood.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
Initially unsure of one another, Agnes and Daisy must nevertheless weather the common tribulations of girlhood together, which take on nightmarish new valences inside Gilead.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
There are some parts of girlhood not even tragedy can suppress.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
In rural Costa Rica, Laura steps out of girlhood and into the world of adults.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
But his lucid, sensitive evocations of Blume’s suburban girlhood should put the question of his ability to rest.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026
After all, Kay had spent her girlhood minding a growing brood of siblings in a series of small Chinatown apartments with a father whose income could not always sustain a family in much comfort.
—Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
Circe and Szu meet as outsiders in their school in Singapore, each other’s only friends, bound by the intense energy of teenage girlhood but also a mutual fascination of Szu’s mother Amisa.
—Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlhood
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The Athletic reported on Tuesday that Mainoo, 21, was set to sign a new deal at his boyhood club, which was confirmed by the club on Wednesday.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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The hamburguesa aplastada, however, a fantastically fatty smash burger with two patties of dry-aged Prime beef and chorizo, began with a backyard burger and boyhood promise.—
Louisa Kung Liu Chu,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Even so, the belief in Mary’s life-long maidenhood is widely shared by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church and by some Lutherans.—
Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2021
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Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Willis Demi Moore reminisced about daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Willis and their childhoods with a black-and-white portrait from their early years and a video clip of the women dancing at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2025.—
Kim Willis,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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Still, much of the public conversations around education centers on test scores and older students, leaving early childhood largely out of the discussion.—
Tina Dello Russo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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Yulieth, on the cusp of adolescence, faces the difficulties of growing up in a wild territory where natural beauty coexists with the hostility of machismo.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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This ability is rare, is seen mostly in children, and usually disappears by adolescence.—
Gabrielle Principe,
The Conversation,
5 May 2026
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“Girlhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlhood. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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