schoolboy
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It has been quite the journey from kicking a ball about as a schoolboy on the playing fields of Vaulx-en-Velin - situated to the east of Lyon - to becoming a superstar worth nine figures.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
In his 2002 autobiography, “Interesting Times,” Hobsbawm claimed not to remember any personal antisemitism as a schoolboy in Vienna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
He has been following Scotland since he saw his first game at Hampden as a 15-year-old schoolboy in 1972.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
As he wrote the article, he felt as if he were a schoolboy again, writing letters to Aunt Elizabeth while his headmaster monitored them.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
A lifelong Everton fan, his friends remember Burnham as a competitive, sports-mad child, who was a fast bowler for Lancashire schoolboys cricket team.
From BBC ● May 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
Many of them were just schoolboys when the coup occurred in 2021.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
I hadn't heard that word since childhood and immediately recalled a mismatched pair of Japanese schoolboys standing alone in a deserted school yard.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
