girls

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It is broadly acknowledged now, across the political spectrum, that girls were terribly let down, in part because the authorities were worried about stirring up community tensions.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

More than half of those displaced are women and girls, the agency said.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

In another song about the absurd reasons why they have been deemed unfit for society, the girls drag out that old canard: “Sane in an insane world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Five members of a family, including 4-year-old twin girls, were reportedly killed recently in a fiery Southern California highway crash as they were on their way to a graduation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Many of them were Indigenous—long.and short-haired, light-and dark-complected, dressed like punks and clean girls and mob wives and everything else that had ever become an aesthetic.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith