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
A painting produced by an eight-year-old schoolboy is to be shown before all UK screenings of Toy Story 5.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
We track his evolution from Liverpudlian schoolboy to American media entrepreneur, his heart broken repeatedly by an English team whose hype is never matched by its performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
Based on an original novel by William Golding, it follows a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island after a deadly plane crash.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
"Hanging by a Wire" tells the story of the nail-biting race to save schoolboys dangling from a stranded cable car in the Himalayan foothills.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
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
I let myself breathe out, feeling less like one of Anatole’s schoolboys taking a scolding.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
