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child

[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /


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To Norway’s child services group, the Barnevernet, the Bodnarius were a model of the progressive but necessary systems put in place to protect children.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

Cisco is the “ultimate dot-com poster child trying to claim relevance in today’s bubble,” Goldberg said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Howie is Warren Buffett’s middle child with his first wife, Susan.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

This year's winning video was magnified to 100 times in size, and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

“Give the child to me, Corrie,” he said.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

These sanitized accounts ignored the homemade dangers, such as the health problems fostered by an overstretched military — realities many children would face when a changed parent finally came home.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

Let’s go back in time to the day when parents sent all their children to the same neighborhood public school, one brother after another, one sister after another.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Happy Meals and other toy promos were geared toward children in the past.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

"For people in and around the city, not just residents but visitors too, if you've got young children walking around, you don't want to hear all that," the resident said.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

The children do as she says and steer away from the house.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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