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Recent Examples of girlhood
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.
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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
Discuss the psychological and emotional growth tied to the changes from girlhood into womanhood.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
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
Discuss the psychological and emotional growth tied to the changes from girlhood into womanhood.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlhood
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His boyhood home on Pepper Street has been preserved by the Pasadena Historical Society.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Neymar is under contract with Santos, his boyhood club, until the end of 2026.—
Tom Bogert,
New York Times,
9 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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The decisive event of his childhood involved, fittingly enough, gunfire and a panicked dash.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Eilish doubled over, covered her face while being serenaded, and generally acted like the girl whose childhood bedroom was covered toe to tip in Justin Bieber posters.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
19 Apr. 2026
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Her family stays on beside the ruins, and the film charts how occupation and its aftermath become the unremarkable background of her adolescence.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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The first collection, which lands in stores in September, will offer those of us who spent their adolescence admiring his archival runway images on Tumblr a chance to finally get in on the action.—
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Girlhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlhood. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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