kid
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“I know these people, and they will pull the plug. That doesn’t worry you or your wife? Don’t you have a kid on the way?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Player pathway is a hot topic in Scottish football and Ure is an example of what can happen when a kid is given a proper chance.
From BBC ● 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
“It’s not a black hole,” another kid was explaining, sounding perfectly rational.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Related: My husband and I are in our 50s and have no kids.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
“How long are these kids talking to chatbots before there’s a red flag that’s thrown up?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Jeff Leu, 40, of San Francisco spent about $100 there on two figures modeled after his kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
As much as I loved being home with my kids and understood the privilege it was, I was bored.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Once, we’d teamed up to teach a group of Red Lake rez kids how to play Cherokee marbles out on the dock, and Trey had given me this look.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
His father was a boilermaker on the Lake Erie Railroad and Lujack was often kidded that he should have gone to Purdue, not Notre Dame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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
They kidded him, calling him Admiral, but for once Leo accepted the title.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
“Seventy-five percent of the time Adrian and I would be walking around and say, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 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
When harangued by CNBC’s Joe Kernan to “reject” the winners, Jeffries replied, “Donald Trump is the president right now. Are you kidding me?”
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Those men are kidding themselves, Kamdem says now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Hopefully Lily wasn’t kidding about where the neighbors lived.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
