boyhood
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Rashford has yet to score a goal or create one since he returned to his boyhood club after last season's loan spell at Barcelona.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
It teaches the difference between boyhood and manhood, between self-indulgence and self-restraint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
But the boyhood trauma of losing his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, has dogged much of his life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
To the surprise of many, including himself probably, Rashford is back at his boyhood club, having initially left for Villa under a cloud after his fallout with Ruben Amorim.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
When Guests Seaver and Kotto began going on about their California boyhoods, he peremptorily cut them dead with "I'm glad we found that out."
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
