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as in schoolchild
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Recent Examples of schoolboy
As a young schoolboy, Davidson was often cruelly stigmatized because no one had bothered to diagnose his disorder.
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
Shaheed Aitzaz Hassan Bangash, a fifteen-year-old Pakistani schoolboy, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school, where the bomber would have killed two thousand students.
—Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Ben’s college teammates mingled with his friends from high school, the latter having traveled from Hoover, Alabama, to tell stories of Ben’s stardom as a schoolboy phenom.
—Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
As an Oviedo resident and schoolboy, joining Gijón’s academy certainly brought scrutiny from schoolmates.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
Shaheed Aitzaz Hassan Bangash, a fifteen-year-old Pakistani schoolboy, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school, where the bomber would have killed two thousand students.
—Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Ben’s college teammates mingled with his friends from high school, the latter having traveled from Hoover, Alabama, to tell stories of Ben’s stardom as a schoolboy phenom.
—Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
As an Oviedo resident and schoolboy, joining Gijón’s academy certainly brought scrutiny from schoolmates.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolboy
Noun
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Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people, including a schoolchild, died at the scene, although that was according to preliminary information.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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On May 18, two armed teenagers entered the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing an armed security guard in a gun battle, then fatally shooting two men cornered in the parking lot, police said.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Zaya Wade is one stylish teenager!—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.—
Madison Darbyshire,
Bloomberg,
13 Mar. 2026
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The al-Roj camp also houses Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who ran away at the age of 15 to join ISIS in 2015 and was subsequently stripped of her British citizenship.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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Throughout the fair’s run, youngsters can learn about animals and gardening at the Fair Farm, take selfies with butterflies, root for their favorite fowl in the Great American Duck Races.—
Linda Zavoral,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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Two youngsters hunkered by a small beach fire, holding slender sticks over it.—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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So dear readers, don’t underestimate yourself or have anyone underestimate you.—
Helen Dennis,
Daily News,
30 May 2026
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The post generated dozens of comments, with many readers echoing his sentiments.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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School kids arrived on field trips and groups lined up for exhibitions, taking the escalators up past the abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s vibrant, 83-foot-tall vertical window.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Bell-to-bell phone bans are among the strategies proposed in a new Surgeon General's advisory warning of the threat excessive screen time can pose to kids.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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The city’s financial situation remains precarious, its crime problems still felt acutely, and its public schools are still struggling to produce acceptable student outcomes.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2026
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Discussion will include the cellphone ban bill, fentanyl abuse, active shooter drills and student walkout policies.—
Emily Harter,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
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No, rest is for the lazy, the Caucasian adolescent, the indolent, the indulgent—until the age of thirty.—
Taiye Selasi,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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Gadd gained almost 90 pounds to play adult Ruben (Stuart Campbell in flashbacks), the fractured older-brother figure of Niall (Jamie Bell as an adult; Mitchell Robertson as an adolescent), while their mothers date each other.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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“Schoolboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolboy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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