boy
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“I learned to work, and I learned to survive, and boy, has that come into play. …I won’t quit and it won’t be about me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
After one troll asked him, “Are you a boy or a girl?” he volleyed back: “My dad is a boy and my mom is a girl. So I’m mixed xx.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In another video, the boy who was hit, identified by community members as Xavier, jumps over a fourth-floor railing as the student who appears to be the attacker approaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
A doctor tells us the father had intended to leave his son at home, but the boy cried because he wanted to come too.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
She closed her eyes, absorbing the cool air, when she heard the impossible boy calling her name.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Amal is forced to raise her two boys - Mohammed and Noah - on her own.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
This is a necessary intervention: according to Savage, many DJs have gotten lazy, and electronic dance music is a boys club that’s difficult for trans and cisgender women to break into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Kerr boys entered the foster system soon afterward, eventually landing in the care of a woman named Lisa McCarthy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Among them are white male entitlement versus the crushing demands of Black exceptionalism; the complicated bond linking fathers to sons; and the agonizing bravery required of mothers raising boys the world is conditioned to ostracize.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
But even Ma and I never talked about friends, boys, dating.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
