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as in kid
a male person who has not yet reached adulthood
a giggling little boy ran by
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as in boyfriend
a male romantic companion
their teenaged daughter has a new boy, and she's just crazy about him
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Recent Examples of boy
The psychological drama follows a socially awkward 12-year-old who is relentlessly bullied at an all-boy water polo camp.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Robbie complicates his situation that much more after taking home Sam (Ben Doherty), a boy whose father is killed by Robbie's crew during a botched robbery.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
Others were harder to discern, like a boy being swept away by a tornado, or homeless men being inserted into people’s homes.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
In the Peacock series, Michael Chernus portrays the murderer who killed at least 33 boys and men in the 1970s.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Boylan didn’t want her boys to enter their father’s profession.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
In the center of the room, swathed in shadow, is the faint spectral outline of a small boy.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
My boy Jonathan Taylor is killing it.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Robbie complicates his situation that much more after taking home Sam (Ben Doherty), a boy whose father is killed by Robbie's crew during a botched robbery.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
Others were harder to discern, like a boy being swept away by a tornado, or homeless men being inserted into people’s homes.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
In the Peacock series, Michael Chernus portrays the murderer who killed at least 33 boys and men in the 1970s.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Boylan didn’t want her boys to enter their father’s profession.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
In the center of the room, swathed in shadow, is the faint spectral outline of a small boy.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
My boy Jonathan Taylor is killing it.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boy
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In August, Reuters reported that Meta allowed its chatbots to have romantic and sensual conversations with kids.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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Each week features new recipe samples, kids’ crafts and community resources.—
Marcus Smith,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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In a confessional, V tells us that her decision to pursue a career as a stew rather than as a deckhand had to do with the fact that being on deck reminded her too much of her late boyfriend, Beau, who died in the ocean.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
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In Germany, every day, one woman is being murdered by her husband, boyfriend, whatever.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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Kinser's remains, with a bullet hole in his skull, were discovered the following September in a sinkhole in the woods by two teenagers collecting firewood, per the Exoneration Registry.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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As it has been reported, the trend spread out around the city within a few years, mostly through the agency of teenagers eager to have their tags known all around the city.—
Antonio Sergio Bessa,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 2025
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Ever since the pop megastar appeared at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023 to root on her new beau, tight end Travis Kelce, NFL viewership among young women has skyrocketed.—
Jennifer Halper,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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Tran, who was previously linked romantically to Chris Brown and Robert Kardashian, walked hand-in-hand with her beau as nurses wheeled him to the operating room.—
Natasha Dye,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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As a young lad growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Pittsburg, my school uniform consisted of corduroys the color of Ash Wednesday, a white dress shirt and a maroon V-neck sweater.—
Steve Lopez,
Mercury News,
1 Oct. 2025
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His boss seems unusually chill with the deception, mostly because this lad might be helpful for sniffing out other moles and double agents in their field.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Children and adolescents ages 2 to 18, without other high-risk factors like immunosuppression, can receive and should be offered the vaccine if they were not immunized before, according to the guidance.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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Deputies arrived at the home and the toddler was sent to a local hospital where he was later declared dead, officers said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Miami Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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Nancy Meyers and Diane Keaton first teamed up on Baby Boom, the 1987 film that finds Keaton’s character unexpectedly inheriting a toddler.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Boy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boy. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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