child's play

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Recent Examples of child's play Beginning Thursday, Beyond the Gates is set to plunge viewers into a three-episode arc that makes Dani (Karla Mosley) bringing a gun to a wedding look like child's play. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2025 Indecipherable homework assignments that would mystify mere mortals are, well, child's play to Suborno, something his parents marveled at early on. Susan Spencer, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025 And everything that used to give me anxiety feels like child's play after all this. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 Getting the reimbursement is far from child's play. Caroline Reid, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for child's play
Recent Examples of Synonyms for child's play
Noun
  • My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But nothings more peaceful than tomorrow to a man going through pain today.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The idea behind the Tumbleweed project is to design large-scale, low-cost robotic rovers that can cover great swathes of the Martian surface while driven purely by the breeze.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The cuffed pants and the knee-length cardigan offer enough coverage to stay cozy against a cool breeze.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For Herzog, this simultaneous coexistence of high art and triviality is part of LA’s twisted genius.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The token slivers of human-interest drama (a divorce battle, a visit to the pediatrician) that are meant to counterpoint the possibility of Armageddon with the oh-so-ironic triviality of quotidian concerns.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Under the stars, hundreds gather on blankets and folding chairs, some with picnic baskets and bottles of wine, others as passersby who stop, captivated by the 7,000-square-foot screen lighting up the New World Center.
    Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Somehow, the man responsible for all of this is a mild-mannered British Unitarian who loves model trains and folk music, and recently celebrated his seventieth birthday with a picnic on a Welsh mountain.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The scones here are particularly scrumptious (try the apricot), but make sure to leave room for some of those airy earl grey cream puffs and a sweet berry tea called Blueberry Merlot.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Heading to downtown Cincinnati for a weekend filled with lederhosen, liter-sized beer steins, giant cream puffs, bratwurst and cringe-worthy chicken dances?
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This free party includes DJs, pop-up bars, kid stuff and more.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Physicist Matthew von Hippel looks not at the birth of the universe but at its destruction, outlining a disastrous world-ending scenario that makes asteroid strikes and Earth-colliding black holes look like kid stuff.
    Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The dessert menu is also extensive, including cakes and shakes.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There are so many life lessons packed into baking a simple birthday cake or a blueberry muffin, and not just how to do fractions.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 30 Sep. 2025

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