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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
Israel responded with a fierce offensive that has killed over 46,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants but say women and children make up more than half of those killed.
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Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
The festival includes live music, children’s activities, fine arts and crafts, vendors and international food.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
The research is showing that teens and young children are increasingly being subjected to hate and racial harassment when gaming.
—Mia Taylor, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
The rankings don’t include specialty hospitals, including children’s hospitals such as Nicklaus near South Miami or Joe DiMaggio in Hollywood.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
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Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
The festival includes live music, children’s activities, fine arts and crafts, vendors and international food.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
The research is showing that teens and young children are increasingly being subjected to hate and racial harassment when gaming.
—Mia Taylor, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
The rankings don’t include specialty hospitals, including children’s hospitals such as Nicklaus near South Miami or Joe DiMaggio in Hollywood.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for child
Noun
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These services can range from making charcuterie trays to face-painting; providing character actors for kids parties to bounce houses.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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Most afternoons, the pool was alive with our big family, actually a pair of merged families, and, as time passed and our kids went into their high-school years, swarms of visitors.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Internet users can't get enough of the love between the infant and her granddad, who takes care of her from Monday to Friday when Rogers is at work.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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The best possible outcome is a public unmasking of his motives.—
Paul Hockenos,
TIME,
9 Jan. 2025
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The outcome reflected shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah badly pummeled from last year’s war, and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad toppled in December.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
9 Jan. 2025
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Biden, who was in Los Angeles and saw the baby at the hospital, announced the birth at the end of an official briefing on wildfires in Southern California.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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These were the size of carnival one-sheets, and full of startling clip-art imagery (a screaming head, a creepy baby in a mobcap) and aggressive block capitals, announcing the circus was back in town.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
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The results have obviously been good because of that.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
12 Jan. 2025
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Milanović won more than 74% of the vote compared with his challenger, Dragan Primorac, who received nearly 26%, according to the results released by Croatia’s state election authorities after more than 99% of the ballots were counted.—
Saša Kavić,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2025
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Advice for parents of babies and toddlers Joey Kehoe and his 1-year-old daughter Florence barely escaped the fire that destroyed their condo on Palisades Drive.—
Jenny Gold,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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Sharon Lyles, executive director of the diaper bank, said babies and toddlers left in dirty diapers can develop urinary tract infections and rashes.—
Michael Cuglietta,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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Finally, the resultant structure was coated in potassium hydroxide, which washes away less stable structures and leaves behind thousands of microscopic pores.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2024
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Designers had initially hoped to tunnel beneath the rail line, but UP refused permission, the resultant bridge adding well over $15 million to the project cost, according to Ellerman.—
Mark Lamster,
Dallas News,
29 June 2023
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The video, which was not ultimately shown to Lively, featured an image of Heath, his wife, and their newborn after a home birth.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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As such, Herod’s massacre would have evoked a familiar Old Testament story in which the Egyptian Pharaoh orders all Jewish newborns to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the infant Moses.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Child.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/child. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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