child
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"My heart goes out to the relatives in the Ballymena area and to those in Poland. I am also mindful of the school friends of the child and the distress they will suffer," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
As he is played by the most charming man in television, we are instinctively on his side — and Lucky loves him, even though he made her, still a child, an accomplice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I remember that as a child I climbed up there, all the way to the main roof tile," former salt farmer Omer Hot said, gesturing at the seven-metre-high storehouse roof.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Acting was the furthest thing from my mind as a child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
‘Now it’s back. Yesterday our scouts returned from the west. They’d found many kills, right down to the Sea. The Whale Clan told them that three days ago, it took a child.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The U.S. numbers wouldn’t have made much of a difference—fewer than 100,000 children, mostly girls, are estimated to have been brought here, out of a nation of well over a billion people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Drinks containing more than 150mg of caffeine per litre will be illegal to sell to children and younger teenagers in shops, restaurants, cafes, vending machines and online.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Parents read and children grow up watching them do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Roome has become a leading figure in the campaign to ban social media for children since Jools' death.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The human children crested the hill, a dozen silhouettes backlit by the rippling green light of Progress.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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