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Recent Examples of girlhood
Repetition is composed of a novelist’s remembrances of her teenage girlhood, a tumultuous time no matter what.
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Beyond its tartness, its specificity, and the sensuous, elliptical line work of its prose, the book serves as a vinegary corrective to the novel of nostalgic country-house girlhood.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
This is not fusion, but testament to the world as one big town, as perhaps only a third-culture kid — with Filipino and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and a girlhood spent in the Deep South — would know.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
The goal should be to help create a Black girlhood experience that Black girls do not have to grieve.
—Essence, 11 May 2026
The Claudine series is based on Colette’s girlhood and her days as a young bride, but Willy published them under his own name.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
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.
—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
The Plums’ layered reality allows room for pleasures native to the teen-drama genre—friendship, gossip, fantasy, romance—even as the show explores how Gilead systematically restricts and perverts the joys of girlhood.
—Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Beyond its tartness, its specificity, and the sensuous, elliptical line work of its prose, the book serves as a vinegary corrective to the novel of nostalgic country-house girlhood.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026
This is not fusion, but testament to the world as one big town, as perhaps only a third-culture kid — with Filipino and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and a girlhood spent in the Deep South — would know.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
The goal should be to help create a Black girlhood experience that Black girls do not have to grieve.
—Essence, 11 May 2026
The Claudine series is based on Colette’s girlhood and her days as a young bride, but Willy published them under his own name.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
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.
—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
The Plums’ layered reality allows room for pleasures native to the teen-drama genre—friendship, gossip, fantasy, romance—even as the show explores how Gilead systematically restricts and perverts the joys of girlhood.
—Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlhood
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The best Survivor 50 moment has to be Devens in his pure boyhood joy flipping MrBeast's coin.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
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Brothers Matt and Steve Vawter inherited their boyhood home following the death of their mother, Susie Vawter, in 2020.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 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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Creator Celeste Hughey’s adaptation of the Tom Hanks movie stars Keke Palmer as Samira Fisher, an attorney and new mother who recently relocated to her husband’s suburban childhood home.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Variety,
14 June 2026
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McConnell has always appeared to have a somewhat unsteady gate — a childhood bout of polio left him with a partially paralyzed leg.—
Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
14 June 2026
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Hormonal changes and brain maturation in adolescence shift the internal biological clock, known as the circadian rhythm, toward a later sleep schedule.—
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
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But the march of time is inevitable, and so are the hormones of adolescence.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2026
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“Girlhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlhood. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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