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Recent Examples of childhood This article is part of The Times’ early childhood education initiative, focusing on the learning and development of California children from birth to age 5. Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Lives lived: Michel del Castillo, a Franco-Spanish writer who wrote wrenching accounts of a childhood spent in World War II concentration camps, died on Dec. 17 at 91. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024 Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001) This biography focuses on Carter's childhood, set against the Great Depression and a sharecropping economic structure. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024 Each piece of jewelry is meant to unlock the memory of one’s own childhood, a light-hearted time when imaginations can run free. Valerie Präkelt, Architectural Digest, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for childhood 

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“Childhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childhood. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.

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