kid
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“When you’re a kid, you want to run away from home and spread your wings,” the singer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
So we did what you’re “supposed” to do in certain socioeconomic spheres after you’ve gotten married and had a kid: We decided we would make our family an island unto itself.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
“It’s no different than giving your kid a BMW on his 16th birthday.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
If your kid would rather get a welding certification or a commercial driver’s license than sit in a university lecture hall, the account can still help, as long as the program qualifies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
“A kid at school showed me how to do that.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
A shift in parenting styles means some parents reject the authoritarian style they grew up with in favor of having a friendship with their kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Goldfish buyers were evenly split between households with and without kids, says Janda Lukin, Campbell’s chief growth officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
"I'm trying to spend at least $20 to $30 just to make sure that I get the kids something," he said, while browsing the rows of colour options at a Target in Manhattan.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
While she loves her daughter, Ursula ultimately admits that she hadn’t initially wanted kids.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
A few kids chased one another with sticks and clacked on roller skates at the rear of the pavilion.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
On a flight to Chicago, Devers kidded Bello he would hit two homers on Friday.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 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
I even kidded Alice about the names she chose for her children.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
"I will let you keep ice hockey, and I will let you keep your 'O Canada' national anthem," he promised before adding: "We're only kidding."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
Hearing the poems recited in the epic Greek of antiquity would be a purist’s ideal—nothing more authentic than that—but who are we kidding?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
His look seemed to say, Are you kidding me right now?
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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