schoolgirl

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Recent Examples of schoolgirl The four-part Adolescence follows the aftermath of the murder of a schoolgirl on the family of the child accused of the crime, with each episode shot as one continuous take. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2025 The riots were sparked by the murder of three schoolgirls by Axel Rudakubana, the British son of Rwandan migrants. Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025 In the film’s opening scene, a white schoolgirl recites a list of the materials. Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025 From quoting Maya Angelou at the Season 9 reunion to cheering like a schoolgirl at the idea of sharing a bunk bed with a costar, Stacey Rusch left a lasting impression during her inaugural season on Bravo‘s The Real Housewives of Potomac. Claire Franken, TVLine, 14 Aug. 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
  • Ben’s college teammates mingled with his friends from high school, the latter having traveled from Hoover, Alabama, to tell stories of Ben’s stardom as a schoolboy phenom.
    Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Likewise, schoolboy Martin Johnson.
    Peter Carline, New York Times, 10 Oct. 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
  • Hear ye, hear ye, good lords and lasses!
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The hotel is made entirely out of ice and snow, and drinks are served out of ice lasses.
    Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As student Natalie Green, Cohn was an early role model for body positivity.
    Michele Corriston, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • An Ivy League student accused of making up an entire life story to gain admission was expelled earlier this semester, prompting fresh concerns over academic fraud and gaps in university vetting that experts say could also expose elite institutions to foreign influence and espionage risks.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • At age 15, she was shot in the face by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education in her home country of Pakistan.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • At the absolute minimum, Prince Andrew and others in Epstein’s orbit showed a pathological incuriosity about the young girls who surrounded him—and that is stretching good faith to its very limit.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The job of the good faith reader is to think alongside each page.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Kathryn Palmer Hello, readers and happy Election Day-eve!
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
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 8 Nov. 2025.

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