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It teaches the difference between boyhood and manhood, between self-indulgence and self-restraint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Grealish has prioritised a return to Everton, where he spent last season on loan, over the option of rejoining his boyhood club Aston Villa, who have also expressed an interest.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
But the boyhood trauma of losing his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, has dogged much of his life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
The symphony has been a been a musical and spiritual guide for him since his boyhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
His white, sudden smile that he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Their locks are scruffy, scraggly; tousled for the boys, and wispy for those whose boyhoods were long ago.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Calipari gushed about Krzyzewski’s triumphs with the national team, and the coaches bonded over their Catholic-influenced boyhoods and their affinity for legendary coaches.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
The Bradford of their boyhoods had clean sidewalks and flowers in the alley.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
Most American farm novels, he says, have been stories of remembered boyhoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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