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Recent Examples of girlhood
This year’s nostalgia for Jane Austen interiors (which has also dovetailed with the return of the canopy bed and is not unrelated to the resurgence of perpetual girlhood) has put candlelit lighting back on the map, and retailers are meeting the moment with modern iterations of the antique.
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2025
An explicit act of transcending her girlhood, and welcoming new parts of herself.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
Childlore, a staple of boy- and girlhood for centuries, has become tenuous and fragile.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Now, her latest hairstyle marks the inevitable moment in Black girlhood where Blue Ivy is starting to come into her own.
—Essence, 11 Dec. 2025
In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Dec. 2025
Next came Unity—conceived, portentously, in the small Canadian town of Swastika—who, outdoing her sister, developed a girlhood crush on Hitler and moved to Germany to serve the Nazis.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
She's best known for bringing nuanced stories of girlhood to life on screen, and she's paved the way for numerous filmmakers — especially women.
—Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
One skipped school day exposes the fractures of a family grieving in silence and the contradictions of love that shape her girlhood.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girlhood
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As a writer, Weir penned a number of songs that became cornerstones of the Dead’s concert repertoire; many were penned with his boyhood friend John Perry Barlow.—
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Hurzeler took charge of Brighton in June 2024, a few weeks before Gross joined boyhood club Borussia Dortmund.—
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Even so, the belief in Mary’s life-long maidenhood is widely shared by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church and by some Lutherans.—
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The 45-year-old's work at the CBS Evening News desk was even criticized by fellow TV personality Megyn Kelly, who relentlessly mocked Dokoupil for crying during a CBS News Miami clip that saw him being interviewed by a local broadcaster and subsequently crying over memories of his childhood.—
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With her family business in high demand, Janet’s middle-class childhood provided her with a level of comfort and security never known to her parents or older siblings.—
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Reiner has long spoken about struggling with substance abuse since adolescence and even experienced bouts of homelessness as a result.—
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The uncertainty, grief and compassion at the crux of many of his frank narratives seemingly reflect the trauma of his adolescence — and, by extension, the stresses of navigating today’s sociopolitical landscape as a gay man.—
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“Girlhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlhood. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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