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Which actor portrayed the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

kid

[kid] / kɪd /




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“I was that kid who was always rearranging my mum’s furniture and painting my bedroom,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

When I was a kid, I used to read “The Joy of Cooking” and imagine the elaborate parties I would someday throw for the friends I was certain adulthood would bring me.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Elon Musk says he will give away one share of his future-intergalactic-empire company SpaceX “to every kid in America” next year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

At funeral after funeral, grieving parents said the same thing: All they did wrong was send their kid to school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

I used to sleep in there the odd time I stayed over as a kid.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

“How these are fun, tickly, exciting stories for kids to talk about and hear. And that’s connecting to the horrors of real life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Former employees said parents were supposed to be told if their kids didn’t match the new model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Studies have shown that trans kids are consistent and resilient about their gender identity.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026

We’ve been married 26 years, and our two kids, 24 and 27, support themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Both Arlo and I squeal like little kids and thank her.

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

I’m seeing a therapist and already feeling better, but I’m kind of shook by how easily I kidded myself that I was fine.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2022

They kidded him, calling him Admiral, but for once Leo accepted the title.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

"I will let you keep ice hockey, and I will let you keep your 'O Canada' national anthem," he promised before adding: "We're only kidding."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Hearing the poems recited in the epic Greek of antiquity would be a purist’s ideal—nothing more authentic than that—but who are we kidding?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

When Nolan says big scale, he is not kidding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

These statistics suggest that some analysts may be kidding themselves — and us — when they argue that the Nasdaq composite’s recent drop is healthy — nothing more than a normal bull-market rotation between sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

I try to seem excited—but who am I kidding?

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio


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