childhood
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Federal agents seized her phone and passport and searched her residence as part of an investigation into allegations dating back to her childhood.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
These cancers account for about 7% of childhood cancers, according to the charity, but experts say diagnosis can often be delayed because symptoms resemble more common conditions.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
We paint our current selves onto the kids we grew up with, so the bookworm remembers a childhood crowded with library lovers, and today’s teenagers are contrasted with classmates who never existed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"It was a really hard time," she said, fearing she would have to move back in with her parents, into her childhood bedroom.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The family followed these directions to the letter; they couldn’t risk missing Leila or Frankie, whose childhood pranks “would fill a book.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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As if their unconventional childhoods weren’t troubled enough, Asa and Yuru’s twinship comes with another heavy burden: saving the world.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Over one-third of American children and a staggering 53 percent of Black children will be subjected to a child protective services investigation at some point in their childhoods.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Six players – England's Owen Hargreaves, Graeme Le Saux and Tony Dorigo, plus Scotland's Lyndon Dykes, Richard Gough and John Hewie – spent their entire childhoods abroad and are excluded from the analysis.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
More immediately, many parents fret about whether they have made a wise decision in trading their children’s childhoods for cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
To think the guy whose downfall basically took our respective childhoods with it was begging for change fifteen minutes from my house six years later?
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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