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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
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Kids’ Place can accommodate about 230 infants, toddlers and preschoolers while the Baylor Scott & White center can accommodate up to 160 children with the same age ranges, according to state records.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2025
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The program is designed for preschoolers, but children of all ages are welcome.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2025
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The case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, pits a growing nationwide effort to strengthen protections for minors online against a booming multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Detectives are concerned about possible other unreported cases, saying the former church volunteer may have had access to other minors through his position at his church, as well as in different roles outside of the church.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Jan. 2025
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Research published in 2014 in the Journal of Adolescence highlights that adolescents who are high in rejection sensitivity are more likely to perceive their romantic partners as being conflictual, even when the interactions are neutral or non-hostile.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Nicotine, the primary chemical in cigarettes, is highly addictive, and the developing minds of adolescents may be especially vulnerable.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Between the lines: These numbers are in line with a national rise in vaccine exemptions among kindergartners, suggesting increasing vaccine skepticism among parents nationwide.—
Alex Fitzpatrick,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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Related article 2 kindergartners in critical condition after gunman opened fire at Christian school The attack at Abundant Life is at least the 83rd school shooting of 2024, surpassing 2023 for the most school shootings in a single year since CNN began tracking such shootings in 2008.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
17 Dec. 2024
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In Britain, Musk has called for the release of Tommy Robinson, a far-right extremist who was jailed for 18 months in October for repeating a libelous claim about a Syrian refugee schoolboy attacking girls.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA TODAY,
7 Jan. 2025
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Recommended reading Morgan Gibbs-White – the mischievous schoolboy who became a ‘special’ footballer Marcus Rashford at Manchester United.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 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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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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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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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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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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