child
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To Norway’s child services group, the Barnevernet, the Bodnarius were a model of the progressive but necessary systems put in place to protect children.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Cisco is the “ultimate dot-com poster child trying to claim relevance in today’s bubble,” Goldberg said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
This year's winning video was magnified to 100 times in size, and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He “wrote a brief note to his new wife, now pregnant with their first child: ‘The battle is getting more merciless by the minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She used to say he was their miracle child.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Families earning less than £400 a week are entitled to weekly NHS Health Start payments including pregnant women and those with children under four years old who are entitled to £4.65 a week.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Not much later, I would consider the role of language in disguising accountability during an investigation into mistreatment of children in Russian orphanages.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Let’s go back in time to the day when parents sent all their children to the same neighborhood public school, one brother after another, one sister after another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Happy Meals and other toy promos were geared toward children in the past.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The children moved in a clot down the hill, stomping and pushing and screaming but never straying far from each other.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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