kid
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"When I was eight or nine I was beating adults at chess and they were raging when they lost, like 'I just lost to a little kid'."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Howe grew up in Walnut, in the San Gabriel Valley, a self-described latchkey kid and the daughter of a residential real estate agent and a women’s clothing store owner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
If you’re trying to understand what’s happening online: Raising a kid today requires spending a lot of time navigating digital platforms.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
While the country was knocked sideways by the Sept. 11 attacks, I was a closeted kid alone in a new city, and football did something for me that I have never forgotten.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
“I’ve put in money before and gotten nothing back. So this is already paid for. I just don’t want it. You enjoy it, kid, okay?”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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"I walk around and even a couple of days ago I was walking up to work and a couple of school kids were like, 'you were awesome'," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
She knew kids risked being sent home when classes resumed in late August — a scenario that would disrupt not just their learning but create a logistical nightmare for working families.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The platform, which has millions of users, is particularly popular among kids, which has prompted regulators to scrutinize its safety.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
It will help keep his kids safe, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Nah, I’ll come to the table. I ain’t seen the kids all day.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
Harp gets kidded by one of his former players, Sean Brown, a member of the 1987 championship team who went on to Colorado.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
“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
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
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
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You’re not kidding when you say there’s a lot to think about!
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
Then it hacked the module that enforces blind obedience and embarked on a long journey to becoming human, with a full set of emotions spanning love, grief and . . . just kidding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
“Are you kidding me? This is wrong,” Benji’s dad said.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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