kid
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“It’s almost like when you’re a kid, and you know you’re getting away with doing something bad — you shouldn’t be watching this, but it feels so good.”
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I was that kid who was always rearranging my mum’s furniture and painting my bedroom,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Elon Musk says he will give away one share of his future-intergalactic-empire company SpaceX “to every kid in America” next year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
At funeral after funeral, grieving parents said the same thing: All they did wrong was send their kid to school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Native kid makes impassioned pleas and cultural jokes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Australia last year became the first country to introduce such a social media ban for kids, barring under-16s.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
And if I can leave something to my kids that would be great also.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
"I spend more time with my horses than my wife and my kids," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet more people see good friends as essential to a fulfilling life than those who feel the same about marriage and kids, according to the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Some of the other kids around me are wearing their brand-new invitational T-shirts, like me.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
On a flight to Chicago, Devers kidded Bello he would hit two homers on Friday.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
In flight, Sadat kidded her about her salary; his was only $12,000.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
Even though they kidded me, the other guys asked me what I’d learned about Guam and I told them.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
"I will let you keep ice hockey, and I will let you keep your 'O Canada' national anthem," he promised before adding: "We're only kidding."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I’m not kidding — this is the best kicker/punter I’ve seen,” Yabu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Hearing the poems recited in the epic Greek of antiquity would be a purist’s ideal—nothing more authentic than that—but who are we kidding?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I was kidding myself to think something could ever happen between us.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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