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childhood

[chahyld-hood] / ˈtʃaɪld hʊd /


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These cancers account for about 7% of childhood cancers, according to the charity, but experts say diagnosis can often be delayed because symptoms resemble more common conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

"It was a really hard time," she said, fearing she would have to move back in with her parents, into her childhood bedroom.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

How much energy your body needs to move as an adult could be influenced by how active you were during childhood.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

I’d been baptized and raised in a mainstream Kentucky Protestant church, but my father had shared childhood stories of snake handling and speaking in tongues in his Pentecostal Appalachian congregation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Jack can be the same way about his own childhood.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

As if their unconventional childhoods weren’t troubled enough, Asa and Yuru’s twinship comes with another heavy burden: saving the world.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Over one-third of American children and a staggering 53 percent of Black children will be subjected to a child protective services investigation at some point in their childhoods.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Six players – England's Owen Hargreaves, Graeme Le Saux and Tony Dorigo, plus Scotland's Lyndon Dykes, Richard Gough and John Hewie – spent their entire childhoods abroad and are excluded from the analysis.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

“One day we were hanging out talking about our childhoods and Luma said, ‘I’m from Jordan,”’ recalled Misty Wyman, a student from Maine who would become Luma’s best friend.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John


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