kid
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The last time Djokovic went three full seasons without a major, he was just a skinny kid from Serbia in his first three seasons on tour, from 2005 to 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Earlier in the week, Itauma said Hrgovic - who has repeatedly labelled him a "kid" - was beginning to get under his skin.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Meghan Wainwright, 32, has been spending summers in Muskoka since she was a kid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“My kid is out at soccer practice and this girl is in here, pregnant, scared to death, signing up for a lifetime commitment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The big screen at the stadium shows the Phanatic playing peek-a-boo with a cute little kid.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Bring them up, inject some fire into this lineup, and let the kids play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
You might want kids, but you called it quits with your fiancé and the next few years at work are going to be pretty busy?
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
"Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
It spits out stories for kids or adults on a CVS-length receipt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nobody would miss Miss Myrt, so Preacher Parr got them to miss the good old days when the winters were worse and the kids were better.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
In flight, Sadat kidded her about her salary; his was only $12,000.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
He sometimes kidded me about being so short, but I always had an easy answer: “Bigger guys make bigger targets.”
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
You’re not kidding when you say there’s a lot to think about!
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
If you’d told readers two decades ago that Whitehead would become a bestselling crime novelist, they might have thought you were kidding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
“You’re kidding, right? You don’t think the huge amounts of greenhouse gases we’re releasing into the air by burning fossil fuels has anything to do with the fact that the earth keeps getting hotter?”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
