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tootsie

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as in gal

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Sometimes the allergy doesn’t appear until days or weeks after the initial tick bite, which is why alpha-gal is often misdiagnosed as food poisoning.

— Andy Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2026
The difference between being exposed to alpha-gal syndrome from eating red meat and from a tick bite has to do with where the alpha gal enters the body.

— Alice Park, Time, 23 July 2026

Definition of gal

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Despite their apparent happiness, François takes a mistress (Marie-France Boyer) without remorse, setting in motion a tragedy that leaves its least deserving character the happiest.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026
Anna’s colleague Noa Toussaint (CCH Pounder) follows with a video of Max coercing his mistress into suicide, shattering the narrative that bought his freedom.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026

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And if that happened to me as a person who had worked in the industry for 15 years at that point, what’s happening to other girls who want to learn how to play bass, who live in Idaho, who don’t even have access to instruments?

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 10 Aug. 2026
Their daughter, Josephine, attended a Catholic girls’ school in the Maryland suburbs, and then, like her father, went to Harvard; their son, John, attended a boarding school in Connecticut, and then the University of Miami.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of girl

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The plot imperative of future Irina surviving to play a significant role in later seasons of For All Mankind gives us so much runway to imagine wild twists and turns for this crafty lass.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
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

Definition of lass

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In June, Swedish authorities arrested a teenage boy who pledged allegiance to the Islamist State and idolized suicide bombers, according to Swedish media.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
The introspective movie centers on four classmates setting out to find the body of a boy who went missing in the woods.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of boy

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Johnson created the story of Nancy (Emilia Jones), who is not a girlfriend, but a crush who Bourdain foolhardily (and under false pretenses) follows to Provincetown after not getting a writing fellowship.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2026
Sheila Kuehl played Zelda Gilroy, Dobie’s smart and confident classmate and eventual girlfriend.

— Sophie Clausen, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of girlfriend

Noun

Platter remained seemingly unseduced, although, as a talented lutist, he was once recruited to serenade another man’s inamorata for a full ninety minutes.

— Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Sebastian’s inamorata, Ellie (Leslie Bibb), is the only daughter of hotel magnate William Collins XII (David Rasche) and his US senator wife, Tigger (Kim Cattrall); and, yes, Tigger is her government name.

— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023

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