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as in boy
a male person who has not yet reached adulthood
fond of telling tall tales of the days when he was just a lad
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Recent Examples of lad
Not bad for a lad from Plaistow who just wanted to be Gary Cooper.
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Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
The tifo had been made before the club agreed to let their homegrown lad, born six miles from Villa Park, join Saturday’s opponents.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
The Boyfriend Jersey, Derby Shorts and Porter LS Top are nods to ’90s lad style, while the Dean Cardigan and Trinity Kilt lend a preppy contrast.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 11 Aug. 2025
To deal with the scrutiny, the Solihull lad would recall a phrase Steve Burns used to tell him.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
The tifo had been made before the club agreed to let their homegrown lad, born six miles from Villa Park, join Saturday’s opponents.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
The Boyfriend Jersey, Derby Shorts and Porter LS Top are nods to ’90s lad style, while the Dean Cardigan and Trinity Kilt lend a preppy contrast.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 11 Aug. 2025
To deal with the scrutiny, the Solihull lad would recall a phrase Steve Burns used to tell him.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lad
Noun
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Nassau County police first received a description of the person who was fatally struck on the parkway and then received a call from Christopher's school roughly 15 minutes later about a missing boy, detective Tracey Cabey tells PEOPLE.—
Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Of course, telling her boys apart is easy for Ness.—
Jeff Truesdell,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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What did you guys do to prepare to be on-screen journalists?—
David Wysong,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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The photos of her kids come shortly after Stormi filmed her first commercial alongside her mom for Kylie Cosmetics.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Expect sing-alongs, dances, interactive crafts and 10 enchanting performances designed to captivate kids and parents alike.—
Tiffani Jackson Skinner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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The teenager’s death comes amid a rise in the number of dog attacks in NSW, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The satire, sci-fi, and body horror movie follows a Chinese-American teenager (Shirley Chen), who, feeling insecure about her race, takes a drastic step that causes a chain reaction throughout her own and her family’s lives.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Kristin Andrews, a philosopher at York University, told me about gelada monkeys, which live in units consisting of one dominant male and about a dozen females.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
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Plenty of people, critics or otherwise, weighed in online, often piling on about their distaste for a perfectly adequate, somewhat imperfect, modestly ambitious thriller that’s mostly about a very intense dude trying to protect his adult children.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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The two men became friends, or at least acquaintances, in the late 1980s and had a falling out in 2004.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the Royals finished 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Lad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lad. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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