boyhood
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Trout built a family home near his boyhood home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Captain George Furbank bowed out in style as he prepares to leave his boyhood club to join Harlequins.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
After spending two years in the first team at Leeds, Milner was sold to Newcastle after his boyhood club were relegated to the Championship in 2004.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
By that point, the player, who last summer returned to his boyhood club Rosario Central, had suffered a couple of minor injuries and been sent off in an FA Cup tie with Arsenal.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
With him, during some previous period of boyhood reminiscence, of confidences exchanged.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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
