boyhood
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Starting in boyhood, an American designer and artist named Donald Evans created thousands of fictitious stamps from nonexistent countries, using a typewriter to punch out the perforations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Gakpo joined Liverpool from boyhood club PSV Eindhoven in January 2023 and has scored 33 goals in 91 Premier League appearances.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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
A pair of gaunt children and some thralls stared at him with dull eyes, but there was no sign of his lord father, nor anyone else he recalled from boyhood.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
