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

kid

[kid] / kɪd /




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“There’s no way this kid is going to be any good,” Bley thought to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But even as a kid, I suspected on some level that this tape wasn’t really for me specifically.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

And I remember calling my dad and saying, 'you need to come watch this kid'.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I would be interviewing a parent who says, “It’s important that my kid not get involved with chatbots,” and they’re on ChatGPT every day.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

He’d had such trouble understanding that when he was a little kid.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Samms connected with parents whose kids had to switch schools multiple times after rising rents pushed them out of their homes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

It is more often a sign of irritation and petulance, with frustrations taken out on the ball with little care for the safety of officials, ball kids and the spectators who line the court.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"I want my kids to say, 'Mom worked really hard for something very important,' because it is very important. It's the cornerstone of our country," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

“We want the maximum number of kids to have access, to stand in front of that tapestry while it’s here in the U.K. It’s a major moment in our island’s history,” he told politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

“See you later,” he says before taking off in the same direction as the other kids.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025

On a flight to Chicago, Devers kidded Bello he would hit two homers on Friday.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2023

In flight, Sadat kidded her about her salary; his was only $12,000.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

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

Even though they kidded me, the other guys asked me what I’d learned about Guam and I told them.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

“Seventy-five percent of the time Adrian and I would be walking around and say, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

“I’m not kidding — this is the best kicker/punter I’ve seen,” Yabu said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

They’re kidding, but he invites himself along anyway, in the hope that hanging with 20-somethings will miraculously make him hip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

“Are you kidding? It’s a kid’s dream up here!”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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