schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl That’s because Henderson was 37 years old, auditioning to play a 14-year-old schoolgirl. Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025 This season, fluorescent pink, blue and white formed a rational yet romantic palette — a vision of a young schoolgirl poised to step into the real world. Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025 Since then, there’s been little doubt about who police believe is responsible for the 12-year-old schoolgirl’s gruesome death. Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025 As a schoolgirl, Muriel was revered by staff and pupils alike. Frances Wilson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for schoolgirl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolgirl
Noun
  • The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The multimedia exposure drew the adoration of the era’s teenyboppers, who raced to spend their allowance money on T-shirts, lunch boxes and magazines featuring the face of Bubblegum Bobby, as he was known.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Shaheed Aitzaz Hassan Bangash, a fifteen-year-old Pakistani schoolboy, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school, where the bomber would have killed two thousand students.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Before boarding the bus, schoolboy Harrison Higgins, who bangs the drum, literally, for Darlo, optimistically predicts a 2-1 away win.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people, including a schoolchild, died at the scene, although that was according to preliminary information.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Three months ago, GE Vernova struck a $50 million partnership with MIT, covering research funding, graduate student fellowships, internships, and professional development programs for its own executives.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The lawsuit claims that footage from the bus showed Robinson never forced the students to take a candy bag and that some parents thanked her.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Her clutch performance earned her girls basketball Player of the Week honors.
    Jeffrey Perkins, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Aledo girls keep improving After a solid 2025 campaign that saw Aledo make it past the area round, the Bearcats have kept improving under head coach Donny Ott.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • On Facebook, our readers had some creative names as well.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The biggest perk of all for readers inspired by Moore’s charming interiors?
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Currently, each school district can decide how many hours of a school day students can miss and still be counted as present.
    Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
  • 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 19 Feb. 2026.

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