girlhood

noun

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Recent Examples of girlhood Stressful texts aside, Zortea turns to the group chat for the girlhood. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 The goal should be to help create a Black girlhood experience that Black girls do not have to grieve. — Essence, 11 May 2026 The Claudine series is based on Colette’s girlhood and her days as a young bride, but Willy published them under his own name. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 Repetition is composed of a novelist’s remembrances of her teenage girlhood, a tumultuous time no matter what. — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 Beyond its tartness, its specificity, and the sensuous, elliptical line work of its prose, the book serves as a vinegary corrective to the novel of nostalgic country-house girlhood. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026 This is not fusion, but testament to the world as one big town, as perhaps only a third-culture kid — with Filipino and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and a girlhood spent in the Deep South — would know. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 As can be found in the books, Laura Ingalls (played by Alice Halsey) and her older sister Mary (Skywalker Hughes) have very different ways of going about girlhood. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 June 2026 The idea was to reflect girlhood through different periods of American history, showing the changes and similarities in books and their accompanying dolls and historically accurate outfits. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 July 2026
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  1. boyhood
  2. maidenhood
  3. childhood
  4. adolescence
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  • If the first eight steps, rising amid the site’s oak and maple trees, can be viewed as his birth and boyhood in the state, those at the summit reflect his later years of anguish and trial.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Cazorla returned to his boyhood club in 2023, having been one of several former players who bought shares in the club in 2012 when Oviedo faced financial difficulties.
    — Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 2 July 2026
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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.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
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  • Medical experts point out that the childhood vaccines at issue — hepatitis A, influenza and DTaP — are safe and effective for kids and recommended by various medical groups.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • My geekiest childhood hobby was stamp collecting, and Saarland once had its own postal service.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
Definition of childhood
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  • Like the real lives of American teens, the show made the everyday problems of high school and teen relationships feel like life and death, giving a gravitas to adolescence desperately needed.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • The World Health Organization’s definition of adolescence from 10-19 years of age is not a categorization routinely used for surgical decision-making.
    — Kavitha Ranganathan, STAT, 29 June 2026
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