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[boi-hood] / ˈbɔɪ hʊd /


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Rehabilitating after a knee injury, he had been expected to stay in Argentina to watch boyhood club Belgrano play River Plate in the Argentina Primera Division Apertura final on Sunday.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

And he says criticism from then manager Rafael Benitez contributed to his potential departure from his boyhood club.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

It’s an evolving boyhood, framed with unshowy elegance by cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub against the island’s flat, grassy, weather-rich horizons.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Once we’ve shaken hands on this unavoidable tension, we can wrestle with Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” an open-hearted biopic of Jackson, extending from his boyhood in Gary, Ind., to the late-’80s tour for “Bad.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

I’d like to walk again on trails I walked in my boyhood days.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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