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children

[chil-druhn] / ˈtʃɪl drən /






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“These children deserve to have the best of everything,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

Given Lena has more life experience than Kjetil these include potential power imbalances, whether or not to have children, and the implications of one partner needing elderly care before the other.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

On social media, it’s a point of pride for parents to showcase their children eating “adult” foods like oysters and octopus.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

Yet it seems that despite the concerns expressed by Cerina Wanzer Fairfax, Justin Fairfax was granted access to his children and to his firearms.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom