as in girls
a female person who has not yet reached adulthood
a pretty young lassie of 16 years
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Noun
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Alo Yoga’s fifth-ever Anniversary Sale is here, celebrating 19 whole years of dressing both everyday It-girls and celebrities such as Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026 -
There’s timeline tampering galore, but also a commitment to understanding and depicting what these girls, now women, have meant to each other over the years.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses!—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
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The Black-Eyed Susan is the leading race for 3-year-old fillies.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Kentucky Oaks, a slightly shorter race exclusively for fillies on the Friday before the Kentucky Derby, will air in primetime this year in an attempt to draw more viewers.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Lassies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lassies. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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