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child

[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /


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Five years later, the boy is played by Jackie Coogan and they are a team whose harmony is interrupted when the child becomes ill and mother re-enters the picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

“You don’t build those years of experience by doing nothing,” said Allen, who caught the aviation bug as a child growing up near the airport in Galesburg, Ill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

The writer-director Jordan Firstman knows his new movie is part of a tradition: films where underachieving men are forced to grow up after a child arrives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Parents were also advised by the school, as a precaution, "to remain alert to any unexpected emails, telephone calls or other communications which refer to you, your child or their school."

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

An anonymous tip to child welfare resulted in a surprise visit to Kate’s apartment the spring of 1888.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

That means platforms which have livestreaming or features that enable the potential for strangers to contact children will also be restricted, which includes gaming sites.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

To come up with story ideas, you should cultivate a writer’s mindset and convert all of life—the children in your elementary school, the conversation you overheard in a coffee shop—into potential material.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Asked on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg if the government was looking to ban under-16s from Vinted and eBay, Nandy said: "We are looking seriously at doing so in order to keep children safe."

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

The church provides clothes and medicine for her eight children and 14 grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

The children froze, their wide eyes roving the shadows, surely regretting venturing into such a dark wood with their pathetic human vision.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman


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