boy
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That legacy belongs to the young girl who once pretended to be a boy just to box when girls were not allowed.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
For such a shy boy, when I had to do the big number, “If I Only Had a Heart,” it went to another level, better than rehearsal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
And I was moved: He is a boy who in crisis gathers information not only for himself but to tell people what happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Telemachus is horrified that a boy would murder his own mother, but Menelaus sets him straight.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
He started fidgeting, which was so unlike the impossible boy that it made Berlin suddenly nervous.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Over the years, he took in troubled boys to work on the farm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Every time we go and see a play, it's not about the boys skipping out of it going, 'I want to be the next Billy Elliot'," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
At 5-10, he looks out of place standing next to the big boys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Axe is bringing back its Kilo, Touch and Anarchy scents in a social-first campaign poking fun at its early-2000s appeal to teenage boys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
I ask, so deep in my work that for a moment I wonder whether Grover Cleveland is a name of one of the boys that I’d somehow forgotten.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
