lad
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And another poster wrote: "Mate as an England fan, what are you doing lad."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“It’s a ballad for the real lad, an acceptable point where men can show a bit of emotion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Paul Coutts, a ball playing midfielder and joker of Wilder's dressing room described Wright as an "unassuming lad" with a "dry sense of humour".
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Instead, the party's candidate, Kenyon, is focusing on hyper-local issues such as opposing new housing developments on green-belt land, pitching himself as a "normal" local lad.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Brave lad, aren’t you,” the Huntsman said, shaking his head with a smile.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
"How come these lads can do that in my seat here when we can't do that at an Everton home game?"
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I missed the whole season, and we got relegated. A lot of the young lads still got good moves; Harry Maguire went to Leicester, Andy Robertson went to Liverpool, Sam Clucas to Swansea."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
But him and the Portuguese lads that came were different.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The lads barely flinched, only allowing themselves a brief flicker of enjoyment on the second chorus.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Many of these lads felt like targets of a new hunt for oddballs—suspects in a bizarre, systematic search for the strange and the alienated.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
