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
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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
  • Building a Lodge arsenal in your kitchen all at once can cost a pretty penny, but thankfully Amazon just marked down a number of cast-iron pieces to stock up on best-sellers and make your everyday cooking a breeze.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In a breeze, the solar lights sway softly, flickering like fireflies.
    Nora Colomer may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Both aspired to some kind of soulful, intellectual seriousness at a moment when their work was pulling them toward mass appeal and triviality.
    Liz McNeil, People.com, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • To the right is a picnic area, the visitors center, and a route to the Civil War installations, the western Kayak Group and Ridge campsites on the southwest side of the island.
    Don Sproul, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Volunteers had a picnic-style dinner, drinks and dessert provided by the Hamburger Factory.
    Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond his core menu, Garcia and his team have also put a huge amount of effort into the pastry cart, appearing each morning carrying almond croissants, cream puffs, cinnamon rolls—all from The Patisserie.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Craving a cream puff but not going to the fair?
    Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 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
  • French pastry chef Yann Couvreur, whose patisserie is located a few blocks away in Wynwood, has created a dessert menu of French-Japanese desserts like a mango, coconut and passion fruit cake and black sesame ice cream topped with matcha and served with Liger’s chocolate chip cookie.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, it might best be described as a pie that captures the best part of German chocolate cake's coconut-pecan frosting.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025

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