kid
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As a boy, I was the only kid I knew whose parents were separated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Other times it’s getting married or having a kid or trying to foresee retiring one day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Shea has been so, so impressive during my time working with him. I have never seen anyone better on the ball than this kid."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
If a child sees education modeled as important, that kid is more likely to go to college.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Folks are probably laughing, knowing I’m a farm kid trying for adventure.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Now he’s married with seven kids and presides over something of an online personal-finance empire that includes an app, books, workshops and social-media communities.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
When it comes to our kids, our quest for optimization is not so much lessening anxiety as feeding it.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
He asked questions about where they came from, if they'd been married before and if they had any kids.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
A pizza counter and a live music stage surrounded by picnic tables makes it a great place to bring kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Why don’t you tell the kids how you fixed the scratch you found on your new car?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
“I remember walking across the street to Pickles before the playoffs started. My kids kidded me, said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if you just walked in there?’”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
The charming, comic sequence in which Elliott’s mother overlooks E.T. among a closetful of stuffed animals both kidded and celebrated the character’s potential take-home commodification; Spielberg was now also in the toy business.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
I’m seeing a therapist and already feeling better, but I’m kind of shook by how easily I kidded myself that I was fine.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2022
On his payday we drove downtown to Division Street and brought presents for my sisters, and he actually kidded around with Mama.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
If you’d told readers two decades ago that Whitehead would become a bestselling crime novelist, they might have thought you were kidding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
These statistics suggest that some analysts may be kidding themselves — and us — when they argue that the Nasdaq composite’s recent drop is healthy — nothing more than a normal bull-market rotation between sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Those men are kidding themselves, Kamdem says now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I groan.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
