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child

[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /


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She said Brand told her to keep their relationship secret from her school friends and claimed that he referred to her as "the child" in front of his entourage.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

The family sent Akshay and his older brother, Akash, to a public university an hour away in Meerut, at a cost of $1,300 a year a child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

But his eyes are empathetic and gooey, a portal right to the miser’s inner child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Whoever you choose, whether it’s an adult child, a relative, or a professional executor, you should have multiple discussions about the role they will take on and what you want to happen after you die.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Now with a child on each knee and ten more crowded close, he drew from another pocket his heavy cross-shaped winding key, each of the four ends shaped for a different size clock.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Craig Gilmore set up Champions CIC, in Beeston, six years ago, to provide free Saturday morning training for children in the local area, as well as breakfast and lunch.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

All five children were eventually returned and the family moved to Romania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

“It’s going to motivate children from all over our country to do some hard stuff. So you can’t really put a price tag on this.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

And the bad actors are often known to the victim: caretakers, friends, neighbors and, yes, even relatives and adult children.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026

He thinks of the man’s wife and children.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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