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child

[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /


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Family assistants, who typically have child care backgrounds, combine the duties of a house manager, personal assistant and nanny.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Her parents split up when she was a child and while she isn't estranged from him, she says they've never been close.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Judge William Mousley KC told Kaur at her sentencing "a responsible parent would have challenged their son" and have asked their child to "do the right thing".

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Rudolph Arthur Marcus was born July 21, 1923, in Montreal, the only child of American-born Myer Marcus and English-born Esther Marcus, both of Jewish Lithuanian descent.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

She sounded like a child, not the tough fifteen-year-old she was.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

She worries about what children might absorb from arrangements with hired help, whose presence they register and whose they miss.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Her agency has fielded all sorts of parenting requests: providing equestrian nannies who travel to tournaments, baby chefs to prepare culturally specific purées for infants, personal stylists for the children.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

That same month, two of the adopted children of Hollywood divorcees Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt undertook an important legal step in the process to drop their father's surname, something they began earlier this year.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

But accessing the drug can be difficult and it has several limitations - it can only be given to children between the ages of two and 18 and in some cases has serious side effects.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Clare looked around helplessly, his good ear perked for sounds of the other children.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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