as a child

phrase

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

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Andy Schilling of Woodside, his great-grandson, remembers going to the beach as a child in the 1960s and 1970s. Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 Leith, who experienced her first migraine as a child, recalled that the episode left her speech similarly scrambled. Charlie Carballo, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026 Ortega’s admission about not eating as a child actor comes in the wake of Ariana Grande’s stepping away from the industry as people expressed concern about her weight. Sophie Ziedalski, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2026 Fudgy, who is sixty-two years old and was wearing a black hoodie, is originally from Yorkshire and moved to Blackpool as a child, when his father was laid off. George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for as a child

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“As a child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20a%20child. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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