schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024 Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl. Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 Consider Nigeria—after the extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April 2014, Nigerian activists took to social media, launching the #BringBackOurGirls campaign to bring worldwide attention to the plight of these girls and push for their release. Pardis Mahdavi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2018 She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for schoolgirl 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolgirl
Noun
  • Bed-rotting while watching Grey’s Anatomy, routinely taking breaks between hospital shootings and plane crashes, is a much different experience from devouring eight episodes of a teenybopper show in one sitting.
    Catherine Mhloyi, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
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    Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In September last year, a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy was killed in a second knife attack near another Japanese school in the southern city of Shenzhen.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The air kiss and Trump's schoolboy grin show a glimpse of the sparks still there.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Williams would show up at a high school in his dress uniform and pick out the most charismatic student.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Temple University said the student who was arrested was placed on an interim suspension.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Jeanette was a great cook, enjoyed family gatherings, was unbeatable at Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble, was an avid reader and liked crossword puzzles.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Nearby license plate readers led to the identification of a suspicious vehicle, which was eventually linked to Cabello, and cellphone data led investigators to a motel in Ohio.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • March 13 was the last day students and teachers saw each other in the same building, a date etched in Rieger’s mind.
    Pat Stoetzer, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2020
  • The Prince and Princess of Wales continue to remain based in Windsor, living at Adelaide Cottage within Windsor Great Park, and George, Charlotte and Louis are day students at the nearby Lambrook School.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024

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“Schoolgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolgirl. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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