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childhood

[chahyld-hood] / ˈtʃaɪld hʊd /


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‘She’s living the dream’: My stepmother said I can buy my childhood home for $850,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

After nearly 50 years of exile, he hoped the events of that day meant he could soon go back and see what became of his childhood home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Because the differences appear during development, the findings also raise the possibility that support aimed at helping autistic children interpret facial emotions could be particularly beneficial when introduced earlier in childhood.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Now 38, Kaepernick has published a memoir titled The Perilous Fight, detailing his childhood in California having been adopted by a white family, encountering racism, and his education and evolution.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

My mind was racing now, filling this character I now realized I knew into Togbe’s childhood stories.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

Nearly a quarter of women in the 1% are first-generation Americans, and about one-fifth experienced times in their childhoods when the main breadwinners in their homes were unemployed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

As though sheer willpower was enough to suspend her children’s childhoods until she could afford to have them living with her.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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