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boyhood

[boi-hood] / ˈbɔɪ hʊd /


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The symphony has been a been a musical and spiritual guide for him since his boyhood.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

My mother’s ancestors and my father’s boyhood and Sappho’s fragments and the sea that raised me are all still there, waiting, under a sky the color of alarm.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

A similar story unfolded in 2022 when Kalvin Phillips left his boyhood club, Leeds United, to join City on a six-year deal.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Trout built a family home near his boyhood home.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Horseman Harold Washburn’s boyhood memory of his first sight of Woolf sums up the impression the Iceman left on the kids of the backstretch.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

It is the story of one of the most desolate boyhoods in all fiction.

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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