schoolboy
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And of course I made the schoolboy error: Day before, we did a run-through and they said, “Do you want to put your speech on the prompter?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
As a schoolboy, he discovered a talent for math and English, eventually enrolling at Macquarie University to study actuarial science at a mentor’s suggestion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane” begins with “As You Lie There,” his fond remembrances about a schoolboy crush.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
This is going to be some kind of schoolboy masquerade, I thought, some masquerade with masks and candles.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Like many schoolboys, I idolized Indiana Jones and James Bond for all the usual reasons, not least their double lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi's pacey documentary tells the real life story of the rescue of Pakistani schoolboys stranded hundreds of feet above a Himalayan valley in a rusting cable car when wires snap.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Five Scottish schoolboys are enjoying internet fame after a video of them singing Wham's Last Christmas into a Ring doorbell went viral.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
Anatole goes to our neighbors’ houses, one by one, offering his condolences for our village’s lost schoolboys.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
