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kid

[kid] / kɪd /




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And I’m like, ‘Jamie, what are you talking about? I’m a special ed kid.’

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Columnist Callum Borchers tells us why playing like a kid in summer camp is good for employee morale.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

"Today a mother can send her kid off to school, work at Snabbit for four hours and come back before the kid comes back from school," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

It is also a representation of the vision which has been in Fleetwood's mind ever since he was a small Southport kid, who occasionally used to sneak over the fence at the iconic course.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

When I was a little kid going through my nightmare phase—a giant fish was always trying to eat me—I would crawl into bed with my parents.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

“If you are a mom with three kids, you can’t go to a march,” she once stated, “but you can make work that deals with your anger.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

They were simply reading the plain and obvious meaning of constitutional texts and insisting that it applied to them and their kids.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

"I could see people walking and kids outside playing, but I wasn't allowed to play with them."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

"We hope people would come and see how healthy they are, playing wholeheartedly and sleeping soundly like kids," the zoo said.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Only after I’d been enrolled a couple of weeks had we found out that most of the Chinatown kids went to Lincoln High.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2025

Sojobi kidded with the new grandmother that she had grown new gray hairs.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2023

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

He sometimes kidded me about being so short, but I always had an easy answer: “Bigger guys make bigger targets.”

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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

“My mom made $34,000 a year, single mom raising three kids — she couldn’t pay $4,000 for me to play club soccer. Are you kidding? She couldn’t pay $400,” Donovan said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

Responses were respectful but hoped she was kidding.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

This continued for days — in tweet after tweet, over and over and over again, he claimed he was kidding.

From Salon May 20, 2026

“Are you kidding? It’s a kid’s dream up here!”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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