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boy

noun as in young man

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Do the white male boys’ clubs still reign, as represented by the statue of Yale founder Abraham Pierson glowering down at the students?

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One teenage boy from Sheffield, who says he has taken knives to school, told us: "I just felt like I need to protect myself."

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"As a mum, that must be... she must feel so happy to see her boys getting on," she said.

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When I first started singing as a kid, Celene — she was such a Disney kid — she would always have me sing the boy parts in all of the duets.

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She recalled a trip to an H Mart where she saw a young boy singing “Golden” at the top of his lungs while holding hands with his mother.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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