schoolboy

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for schoolboy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolboy
Noun
  • Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Zaya Wade is one stylish teenager!
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.
    Madison Darbyshire, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Both youngsters, though, have bonded during their short time together.
    Mike Kaye May 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
  • His desire to teach his youngsters future skills intensified after the loss of his wife of 17 years, Heather Stevens, who died from pneumonia in October 2024.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • So dear readers, don’t underestimate yourself or have anyone underestimate you.
    Helen Dennis, Daily News, 30 May 2026
  • The post generated dozens of comments, with many readers echoing his sentiments.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That’s 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, LA, and Boston.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 29 May 2026
  • During this nationally competitive program funded by NASA, students collaborate with scientists and engineers to conduct authentic research.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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