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Which actor portrayed the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

kid

[kid] / kɪd /




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Before cinema, he wanted to be a rapper - "a kid from Compton instead of a kid from Nagaland", as he puts it.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“They can be a little kid, they can be an old man, I can’t stump you guys as far as casting you in the scene and that’s fun.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Your kid is going off to college next week, and she needs books.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

He seems like a nice kid — well-mannered, diligent and hardworking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

He was clutching his face now, almost like that kid in the Home Alone movie.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

I didn't know who I was without the kids.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In others she stands outside a mosque while kids play with the bug’s feet and sits in an abandoned movie theater, her tail wrapped around the seats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

My kids aren’t much younger—and we’re still in our please-remember-shinguards phase of soccer development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Related: ‘I was shoveling sidewalks at 8 years old’: I’m a 73-year-old boomer dad with two kids.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The group of about twenty kids is seated in a circle, listening to Wes, who is in the middle of a story.

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

Also in the 1960s, Times columnist Jack Smith kinda kidded that a Westside woman told him the only reason to come downtown was to get divorced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

In flight, Sadat kidded her about her salary; his was only $12,000.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

Sometimes I think they'd like it if you kidded them--in fact, I know they would--but it's hard to get started, once you've known them a pretty long time and never kidded them.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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

They’re kidding, but he invites himself along anyway, in the hope that hanging with 20-somethings will miraculously make him hip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

And even while kidding, Kupp couldn’t help but say out loud what many Rams followers are thinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“You got to be kidding me,” I said when Ben explained how the glow ball rolled around on the floor.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings




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