boy
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A three-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a crocodile enclosure has been discharged from hospital and is settling back in at home, his family has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It really was like the girl or the boy making the decision to move away from home to go to college,” she later told an interviewer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Like Castañeda, Ochoa — the boy expelled during Eisenhower’s operation — returned to the United States as a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The boy was a gang leader in a Caracas high school and a member of an outlawed Venezuelan Communist youth group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The boy says something in Spanish to his friends, and they all giggle and walk away.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Diana had made her two cherished boys promise to always stand by one other, but almost 30 years after her death they are no longer talking.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Girls continue to outperform boys, but the gap between boys' and girls' pass rates across all three nations has narrowed again to its lowest on record.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“He’s at the Cowboys now, so learning under him, and then my whole O-line from Tennessee, I love them boys, and they helped me a lot too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
I learned that he’s a proud father of two boys and a girl, and two dogs named Nipsey and Scrap, whom he affectionately calls his “babies.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
After the boys threw the ball, they all scattered.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
