kid
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When I was a kid, I always wondered why that happened, and the only explanation adults could provide amounted to, “Because.”
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I'm a regular kid from west Belfast, from an Irish-Ghanian background. I'm nothing special, but just want to leave a legacy the next generation can aspire to."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Today a mother can send her kid off to school, work at Snabbit for four hours and come back before the kid comes back from school," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Okay, who’s the kid? Do you know him? We have to stop him from knocking on the door,” she says, panicking.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"Her kids were everything to her. She adored her kids. She wouldn't have done something that would have jeopardised that."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He would inherit your house and your kids would get zero.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Drapaty has a wife and kids, Ukrainian media reported.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Leigh said they have worked hard to build the life they thought they wanted, with two kids, their dog and a home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Grandma and Lou exchange a cryptic look as the kids climb higher.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
“You used to have parties here all the time,” she kidded him in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
On a flight to Chicago, Devers kidded Bello he would hit two homers on Friday.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
In flight, Sadat kidded her about her salary; his was only $12,000.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
They’d be kidded forever: they wouldn’t care because they were graduating, but she would have to sit there for three more years.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
If you’d told readers two decades ago that Whitehead would become a bestselling crime novelist, they might have thought you were kidding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“My mom made $34,000 a year, single mom raising three kids — she couldn’t pay $4,000 for me to play club soccer. Are you kidding? She couldn’t pay $400,” Donovan said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
This continued for days — in tweet after tweet, over and over and over again, he claimed he was kidding.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
“Everyone was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding!’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
I glanced at him to see if he was kidding around.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
