rosy-cheeked
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We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
I can't recall the title, but it had a green plastic spiral binding and a paperback cover with a rosy-cheeked grandmother in a frilled apron on the front.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023
“Where am I?” she asked when she awoke, rosy-cheeked.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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