mama's boy

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Recent Examples of mama's boy This is not being a mama's boy, this is being a good and moral human being. Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024 By his own admission, Dustin Vitale is a mama's boy. Steve Hartman, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2021 Before that day, the chipper 23-year-old was known as a mama's boy. Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 3 June 2020 That said, did anyone else see Dr. G as a mama's boy? Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018 Both huge mama's boys, doing any and everything for our mothers. Trey Moses, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2017 Aiken credits his character to his mother, calling himself a mama's boy even now. Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mama's boy
Noun
  • Parents tend to perceive less need to safeguard boys, encouraging more adventurous risky behaviors, according to a 2024 cross-sectional study published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine recently sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT coached the California boy in planning and taking his own life earlier this year.
    Trân Nguyễn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But man, our kids went toe to toe with them.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The event includes pumpkin decorating and other activities for kids, music, a plant sale and garden shop along with barbecue lunch sold by Amigos de Vista Lions.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • OpenAI and Meta last month announced changes to how their chatbots respond to teenagers asking questions about suicide or showing signs of mental and emotional distress.
    Trân Nguyễn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In September, the Federal Trade Commission ordered seven companies, including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta, to explain how their AI chatbots may affect children and teenagers.
    Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Fun for kiddos and reassuring for parents, the Fitbit Ace earned our Editors' Choice award for kid-friendly smartwatch.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Cut the top off a paper plate to make the flat head and provide your kiddo with the paper hair, eyes, noses, and bolts to glue on.
    Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • With Brodin back, youngster David Jiricek came out of the lineup against his former team, Columbus.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In a new layer, the storyline taps into the fresh embrace of Islam by some youngsters in France with second and third generation migrant roots.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Rather than figuring out whether or not the young lad did it, Adolescence explores the complexity and psychology of how an earnest student from a respectable family committed such a crime.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Santos has also been charged with allowing a juvenile to have possession of a firearm.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This is the third time in less than a week that a juvenile has been hit and seriously hurt or killed by a vehicle.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025

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