child
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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
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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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