rosy-cheeked
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We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
I can't recall the title, but it had a green plastic spiral binding and a paperback cover with a rosy-cheeked grandmother in a frilled apron on the front.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023
“Saturdays, we stay here from 12 o’clock until nighttime,” said Cindy Rojas, the mother of an excitable rosy-cheeked 5-year-old named Sebastian, whose black No. 17 Kings jersey fits him like a tunic.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2022
"Ridiculous. Just look at him—the very picture of rosy-cheeked health."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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