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as in teenybopper
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Recent Examples of schoolgirl
Then, her mom heard about auditions for a Disney Channel half-hour sitcom called Hannah Montana, about a brunette schoolgirl by day who dons a blonde wig and becomes a pop princess by night.
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Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
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
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Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolgirl
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At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.—
Greg Poole,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2026
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The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ghosts of Iraqi Freedom A few days after my ride across town, on April 7, a rocket fired by militiamen landed in an empty room in a house in my neighborhood, and another killed an eight-year-old schoolboy named Siraj in nearby al-Amiriyah.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
26 May 2026
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The accordionist stomped sideways under the stage lights, sweat running down his temples, looking like Angus Young sans schoolboy shorts.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Oh Outlander fam, for old times’ sake, let’s get in one last sing me a song of a lass that is gone, say could that lass be I?—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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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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Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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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
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Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2026
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Southlake Carroll boys and girls soccer both had teams that were standouts in the Fort Worth area.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 June 2026
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Pimentel argued the school failed to intervene despite students openly discussing the security guard's behavior.—
Peter D'Oench,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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During a 2023 blitz, students discovered a completely new species of jumping spider, and then promptly found thirty more individuals from the same species across campus.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The experience of the book, then, is to commune with a singular mind turning his gaze on the dog, the world and himself as a way to conjure complementary and contradictory thoughts in the reader.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
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Heuermann has been a voracious reader in jail, but Toulon said the inmate’s preference for violent crime and mystery novels -- some about serial killers -- concerns him.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 June 2026
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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
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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 14 Jun. 2026.
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