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Recent Examples of rug rat
Third row seats are best left for rug rats, or folded.
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cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet?
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018
cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet?
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rug rat
Noun
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The playlist includes several more songs that will help prepare your preschooler for Halloween.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
17 Oct. 2025
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Nikita Zadorov made the Buffalo Sabres defenseman look like a preschooler.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Epstein had in 2008 pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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The head-to-head contact looked to be accidental, and Michkov was given a two-minute minor for interference on the play.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.—
Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Driscoll’s workbook on mental health care for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes also walks through various strategies, including communication and problem-solving skills.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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This map of per-county kindergartner vaccination percentages in Utah and Arizona shows that all but two counties have percentages below the 95% level needed for herd immunity, with nine counties having percentages lower than 85%.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
1 Nov. 2025
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Amy Kovac, the reading specialist, was in Parker’s office when Zwerner told Parker the boy had threatened a kindergartner and had been aggressive with a security officer during lunch.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Ben’s college teammates mingled with his friends from high school, the latter having traveled from Hoover, Alabama, to tell stories of Ben’s stardom as a schoolboy phenom.—
Nick Stern,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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Likewise, schoolboy Martin Johnson.—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Sep. 2024
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Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.—
Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
24 June 2024
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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Alex Vesia revealed on social media that his infant daughter Sterling died in the final week of October.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Heather Miller, the former child care worker accused of felony child abuse involving three infants at The Lawrence School in Waukesha, will serve 15 years in prison and another seven on extended supervision.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Then, abruptly, back to lightness, was a video showing a newborn’s heartwarming first encounter with the family dog.—
Lindsay Lowe,
Parents,
8 Nov. 2025
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Peter was driving when their car collided with the one carrying Carrie and her own newborn.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Rug rat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rug%20rat. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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