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
The best part was that the kid who bought it genuinely loved the car and did all his research about the longevity of these batteries and how best to take care of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"He wouldn't throw a stone at a dog when he was a kid," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Finally the last kid walked past, and Gary let go.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Second, kids wanted “player agency,” the idea that their actions change what happens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
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
"For the time being, I'm looking forward to getting home to see my kids and getting back to work representing my constituents," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The kids groan but kick into high gear, helping tidy the space and picking up after themselves.
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
I even kidded Alice about the names she chose for her children.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Then it hacked the module that enforces blind obedience and embarked on a long journey to becoming human, with a full set of emotions spanning love, grief and . . . just kidding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
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
This continued for days — in tweet after tweet, over and over and over again, he claimed he was kidding.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
She jabbed her finger at the screen, and I could see that Professor McMillan hadn’t been kidding earlier—he really had already programmed the Glitch back to the Academy on the night it was destroyed.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
