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Richman said that as a child, Banegas and his siblings learned to open car doors to look for money to buy food.
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Joan Murray, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
Inter Miami was after its first crown as a child-age franchise born as the Covid pandemic hit hard in 2020, a team nondescript, under-radar and mostly losing, until those three words changed everything -- three magical words that still don’t seem real, even now.
—Miami Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
Warren also was bullied as a child and discouraged in her musical pursuits by other adults.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2025
One was about a man who was brought to the United States from Mexico as a child.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
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Joan Murray, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
Inter Miami was after its first crown as a child-age franchise born as the Covid pandemic hit hard in 2020, a team nondescript, under-radar and mostly losing, until those three words changed everything -- three magical words that still don’t seem real, even now.
—Miami Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
Warren also was bullied as a child and discouraged in her musical pursuits by other adults.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2025
One was about a man who was brought to the United States from Mexico as a child.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
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 11 Dec. 2025.
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