kid
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A native son of Southport, England, Fleetwood would even sneak onto the grounds as a kid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ideally, I need to get to $250,000 to buy a modest apartment so my kid can have a place that is ours and has no debt associated with it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Although it sounds tough on a kid, it actually wasn’t, because it made me comfortable with change.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"He wouldn't throw a stone at a dog when he was a kid," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Probably when I was a kid, I dropped off that quick too.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Actress Emmy Rossum discusses her ideal morning routine with sunrise walks, a specific bench in Central Park and elaborate handshakes with her kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Sara Tidy said there were "literally hundreds of cars" and "kids playing tennis" to keep them entertained.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In family playrooms, the researchers watched young kids play with Lego sets, and came away with three conclusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Though she spent some years in an old Ojai farmhouse in the 1980s raising her kids with former husband Malcolm McDowell, she’s always had a base of operations here in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Dad seems like he’s trying hard to keep the irritation out of his voice when he says, “You know what I think would be nice—leaving my kids with at least one parent!”
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
“I remember walking across the street to Pickles before the playoffs started. My kids kidded me, said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if you just walked in there?’”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
The charming, comic sequence in which Elliott’s mother overlooks E.T. among a closetful of stuffed animals both kidded and celebrated the character’s potential take-home commodification; Spielberg was now also in the toy business.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
“Seems like someone’s becoming one-hundred-percent Amer-icanized,” Theresa kidded.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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
“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
This was embarrassing, and he was kidding himself.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
