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as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
an imaginative animated film that appeals to adults as well as to children
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as in infant
a recently born person
wrapped the child in a blanket before taking him outside in the cold
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as in outcome
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
widespread stress is the child of the frenetic pace of the modern world
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Recent Examples of child
Thompson also said Rocha is facing another charge for possession of child pornography.
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Pj Green
october 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Mai Vang grew up in a family of 16 children born to refugee parents from Laos that relied on the Salvation Army for help.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noting the billions of dollars that Arkansas spends each year on federal programs to help the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps, child welfare and unemployment assistance, Sanders suggested the problems are often too big for a single program to fix.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
The couple welcomed their first child together, son Ashe Olson, three years later.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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Pj Green
october 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Mai Vang grew up in a family of 16 children born to refugee parents from Laos that relied on the Salvation Army for help.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noting the billions of dollars that Arkansas spends each year on federal programs to help the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps, child welfare and unemployment assistance, Sanders suggested the problems are often too big for a single program to fix.
—Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
The couple welcomed their first child together, son Ashe Olson, three years later.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for child
Noun
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But man, our kids went toe to toe with them.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Oct. 2025
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The event includes pumpkin decorating and other activities for kids, music, a plant sale and garden shop along with barbecue lunch sold by Amigos de Vista Lions.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Funding for a key food aid program relied on by millions of mothers and infants will likely run out of money in the coming days.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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Once they were cast, the twins gave the crew a crash course on working with infants.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Such an outcome is far from certain.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Oct. 2025
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Seeking to improve these outcomes, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at Australia's Flinders University, has created a compound consisting of a bioceramic scaffold embedded with silver-gallium liquid metal.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the post, Erin included new photos of her, her baby son and her husband to commemorate Henry's first month earthside.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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There are certainly families ready to adopt the babies surrendered in these boxes.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Restoring trust means delivering results, not excuses, through mandatory ethics training for all city staff to ensure accountability.—
Miami Herald Staff,
Miami Herald,
8 Oct. 2025
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In fact, those reforms, though still in their early stages, were yielding impressive results.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Whether chasing your toddler at the park or running errands around town, the baggy fit gives you plenty of room to sit, bend, and walk without feeling restricted.—
Laura Lu,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2025
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One of the milestones marked indelibly in my mind is the first birthday party my toddler son attended at the home of one of his three-year-old preschool classmates.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Moyes and assistant McKinlay both remonstrated with the fourth official at the resultant flash of a yellow card.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The resultant program or app is established without any need for understanding computer programming.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Although this is the first time elevations of the Alzheimer’s disease marker pTau217 have been observed in newborns, extensive phosphorylation of tau has previously been reported in the developing brain.—
Robert Martone,
Scientific American,
10 Oct. 2025
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Those most at risk include newborns, who are too young to be vaccinated and among the most medically fragile.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Child.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/child. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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