schoolboy
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It comes after Aleksanders struck the Coventry schoolboy with his black BMW 330 on Radford Road on 14 June 2024.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The schoolboy has been taught a lesson and now we will find out what he learns from it.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
In his 2002 autobiography, “Interesting Times,” Hobsbawm claimed not to remember any personal antisemitism as a schoolboy in Vienna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Like a schoolboy, he fills his notebooks with Latin words, but he never really succeeds.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Like many schoolboys, I idolized Indiana Jones and James Bond for all the usual reasons, not least their double lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Based on an original novel by William Golding, it follows a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island after a deadly plane crash.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi's pacey documentary tells the real life story of the rescue of Pakistani schoolboys stranded hundreds of feet above a Himalayan valley in a rusting cable car when wires snap.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Many of the schoolboys went on to have successful careers in music, including renowned composer John Rutter and John Blakely, who was a professor at the Royal College of Music for over 30 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
“What do you take us for, mister? A couple of them schoolboys? You expect us to believe these here cans shoot up in the air and explode in color?”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
