kid
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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
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“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
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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
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"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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