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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.
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Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
At the end of the day, Drake's a certified mama's boy.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
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
Both huge mama's boys, doing any and everything for our mothers.
—Trey Moses, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2017
That said, did anyone else see Dr. G as a mama's boy?
—Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
Aiken credits his character to his mother, calling himself a mama's boy even now.
—Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
At the end of the day, Drake's a certified mama's boy.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
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
Both huge mama's boys, doing any and everything for our mothers.
—Trey Moses, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2017
That said, did anyone else see Dr. G as a mama's boy?
—Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
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
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Most afternoons, the pool was alive with our big family, actually a pair of merged families, and, as time passed and our kids went into their high-school years, swarms of visitors.John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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My family walked with Krewe of Confetti Kids on Saturday for its annual kids parade in Algiers Point.Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
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Finding housing for a couch-surfing teenager is different than finding housing for a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
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Rioux was the Guinness World Record holder for tallest teenager, standing at 7 feet, 5 inches as a 15-year-old.Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Pullen Park’s another great spot for family fun, where playgrounds, a carousel and train, and pedal boats will keep the kiddos entertained for hours.Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
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Hoopla Toys Snowball Thrower Set $15 at Amazon Challenge your kiddo to a snowball fight this winter with a set of snowball throwers.Laura Lu, Parents, 7 Jan. 2025
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The report found that 50 per 100,000 in adolescents assigned female at birth and 25 per 100,000 in adolescents assigned male at birth received hormones.Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Adding fluoride to community drinking water is credited with reducing the average number of teeth with cavities by 44% in adults and 58% in adolescents since the 1960s, the health service says.Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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The youngster would approach from below, submerged, then pop up and try to catch them by surprise.Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Ty Emberson — 70 Much of Emberson’s grade comes from stellar PK work by the youngster.Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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There’s a rousing musical sequence where the Take That lads rampage through the West End and, at the song’s peak, Williams leaps from the top of a double-decker red bus.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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A lot of the new lads signed early, which helped them to bed in.Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Two people, one a juvenile, have been charged in the October 2023 shooting death of a Round Lake teenager, authorities said.Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
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Sent to prison for past shooting As a juvenile, Flowers was sentenced in 2015 in connection with a drive-by shooting in St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood that police described as gang-related.Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2025
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By 2100, the measure could prevent some 48 million U.S. youth from starting to smoke.Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
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The teenager was born in Gambia but has spent his youth career in the U.S. at Minnesota United and Philadelphia Union, before moving to LAFC in 2023.Colin Millar, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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