kid
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Manning has plenty of defenders, arguing that this a kerfuffle about nothing, that Manning is a college kid reacting like a college kid to a fake video of something that didn’t happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“God, this kid has really been railroaded,” she remembers thinking.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Before Denver, you lived briefly as a kid in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It seems unlikely that the coiffed and polished Harp would freely choose to forgo a real suitcase in order to carry an oversized sack like a disorganized college kid.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Native kid makes impassioned pleas and cultural jokes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“If anything, it’s the other way, which is it’s the cool thing that kids want to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Haidt’s theory was that it was because that’s when most kids got their own smartphones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
This week, Randy’s identity is “real cyclist,” which puts him at war with the packs of e-bike-riding kids now clogging South Park’s bike lanes.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
More on this: The kids are out of the house, and I saved for college.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Black kids in the group continue to laugh, not for the humor of it, but because it’s a moment they can all relate to.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
This claim of passivity kidded nobody except maybe himself.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2025
Roberts kidded Ohtani about gifting him when the modest record was inevitably broken, and the new Dodgers slugger obliged with the toy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
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
I even kidded Alice about the names she chose for her children.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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
“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
When Nolan says big scale, he is not kidding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Those men are kidding themselves, Kamdem says now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
“You’ve got to be kidding me. This is not the end of this,” Mrs. Hobert warns.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
