as a child

idiom

: when one was a child
I went there once as a child.

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Ora is also notably a UNICEF ambassador who has continually advocated for humanitarian causes, drawing from personal experience as a refugee from Kosovo as a child. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025 Were you introduced to poetry as a child, or as a young person? Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 Hopkins as a child with his father, Dick Hopkins, a baker from Port Talbot, in Wales. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 Interestingly, the spooky social media star was never quite interested in anything spooky or macabre as a child. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for as a child

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