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kid

[kid] / kɪd /




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Added Jones: “Thinking that this kid from Curaçao who came here chasing a dream, gets a chance to play a sport he loves and ends up in Cooperstown, is wild.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

A native son of Southport, England, Fleetwood would even sneak onto the grounds as a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

"I had to raise myself. I was actually a street kid," he told lawmakers.

From BBC Jul. 14, 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

Dad looks like a kid right before he goes to the dentist.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

We have plenty of screen-based temptations lying around the house already, and my kids don’t need another.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

First, kids were thirsty for social experience, says Sam Coates, a Lego vice president who was on the trip.

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

Like many parents, Heptinstall and her husband previously managed with a combination of organised childcare and annual leave to look after their older kids, who have now grown up and left home.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

There’s something else that captures my attention—the steady stream of kids running around.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2025

“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

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

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

Those men are kidding themselves, Kamdem says now.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 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 knew that Grandpa was kidding me, so I grinned and said, “Aw, Grandpa, you know I’m not a drinking man.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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