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Noun
  • For Stowell, his wife and three kids, including his son who was younger than 10, entrance to Hollywood Studios cost $974.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • The clinics will also include financial education resources for kids and families that will be delivered through the lens of basketball.
    Caroline Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Karen Read’s second murder trial entered its fifth week of witness testimony as prosecutors continue to build their case against the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • Greater Salt Lake police officers responded to a call from a Millcreek home that a man and his six family members had been held against their will by their pregnant daughter's boyfriend, Garcia.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Four men, including a minor, were arrested in connection to a shooting that killed a teenager and injured a woman, North Richland Hills Police said in a release Monday.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2025
  • Jackson, the council candidate, said people are coming to city hall to make their voices heard because of a pattern of violence by Aurora police against Black men and teenagers.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • For months now, Taylor Swift fans have been playing their own version of where’s Waldo, waiting (sometimes impatiently) for the superstar to appear in public with her beau, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
  • Ciara is there with her beau, Russell Wilson, as Future walks the carpet not far behind them.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The old lad won the 2025 Masters in the most patent way possible, by outwitting an army of demons and finally meeting his place in history.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • He was joined for his lads night away by Thomas van Straubenzee, who is one of Princess Charlotte’s godfathers, and Nicholas van Cutsem, who William has known for most of his life (and is one of Prince Louis’ godfathers).
    Simon Perry, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • First, governments could consider warning labels for ultra-processed and red meat products and restrict marketing junk food to children and adolescents.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • The collectives are able to pull adolescents into their orbit by first establishing contact on public platforms, according to an April report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s national police force.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • As the antivenom began its work, Reed was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where her medical team focused on correcting the toddler's plummeting oxygen levels due to the venom, The Arizona Republic reported.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • In January, a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following a knife attack in the German city of Aschaffenburg in which two people were killed, including a toddler.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
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“Boy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boy. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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