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Recent Examples of girlhood
One skipped school day exposes the fractures of a family grieving in silence and the contradictions of love that shape her girlhood.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Your music has been the soundtrack to generations of Black girlhood and womanhood.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s a difference between expressing one’s gender identity and participating in girlhood as a broader cultural condition.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
Her collection is a tableau of teenage girlhood through the lens of her adolescence in Lima, Peru.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 15 Sep. 2025
Nonfiction narratives that students both read and produce serve as counter-narratives to the oppressive and harmful tropes in media more generally about Black girls and girlhood.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
This novel also clicked for sympathetic girlhood reasons.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Still, for fans of the book who were excited to see its first on-screen interpretation, the movie helped raise a generation by treating kids like real people and celebrating different versions of girlhood.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Swift most recently explored girlhood and nostalgia with her record-breaking Eras Tour that ended in December and spanned each of her albums.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Your music has been the soundtrack to generations of Black girlhood and womanhood.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s a difference between expressing one’s gender identity and participating in girlhood as a broader cultural condition.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
Her collection is a tableau of teenage girlhood through the lens of her adolescence in Lima, Peru.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 15 Sep. 2025
Nonfiction narratives that students both read and produce serve as counter-narratives to the oppressive and harmful tropes in media more generally about Black girls and girlhood.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
This novel also clicked for sympathetic girlhood reasons.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Still, for fans of the book who were excited to see its first on-screen interpretation, the movie helped raise a generation by treating kids like real people and celebrating different versions of girlhood.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Swift most recently explored girlhood and nostalgia with her record-breaking Eras Tour that ended in December and spanned each of her albums.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlhood
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Alexander-Arnold hasn’t played for Madrid since suffering an injury in their opening Champions League game against Marseille on September 16, and The Athletic reported on Monday that he is not expected to start against his boyhood club despite Dani Carvajal’s injury.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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His boyhood home is available to visit in Lincoln City.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
29 Oct. 2025
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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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Even more poignant, however, is the Rosemary's Baby angle, where the innocence of childhood is drowned in blood and the notion that a young person reared in a loving environment should develop into a compassionate adult is perverted into unthinkable horror.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The initial childhood of Victor Frankenstein lends itself more to that age of enlightenment.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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But as childhood faded into adolescence, the piano became less a place of play and more a refuge.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Maybe the trailing parent is simply the next logical step in an era when adolescence stretches longer.—
Russell Shaw,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Girlhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlhood. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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