childhood
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It may or may not be a culture clash that pits your middle-class childhood against your husband’s privileged one.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The judge said that, in weighing the sentence, he considered Iza’s history and characteristics, including childhood displacement from Iraq, separation from his parents, neglect, poverty, physical abuse and prolonged social isolation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
But there were moments of his performance in which I recognized a young version of my own childhood monster.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Pollock—born in Wyoming, with an itinerant childhood before arriving in Los Angeles as a teenager—had been exposed to American indigenous art, Mexican muralism, Surrealism and the regionalism of Thomas Hart Benton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
How did it explain a childhood passion for washing money?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
Rothwell's role in Coronation Street had been written with him in mind - as the creator Tony Warren had worked with him during their childhoods on BBC Radio's Children's Hour.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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