boyhood
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Trout built a family home near his boyhood home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Paulo Goncalves, technical secretary at Pacos de Ferreira, Jota's boyhood club, told BBC Sport:
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Scrum-half Nolann Le Garrec, playing at his boyhood club, scampered over for a hugely popular score before Antoine Hastoy wormed over at the end of another sweeping move that England could never pin down.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Raffi Quirke, a boyhood Sale fan, signed off before a summer move to Newcastle with a blindside dart and cute chip to set up one of Arron Reed's two tries.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
It was a sacred time; I felt happy and fulfilled taking part in my people’s customs and ready to make the transition from boyhood to manhood.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
