became
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They also identified a striking difference in development: In neurotypical children, the brain's response to faces became more specialized with age, while autistic children did not show the same pattern.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
“What should have been a happy childhood moment became heartbreaking and distressing for him and deeply painful for our family to witness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
At the Darrow School in upstate New York, I was socially awkward and became a bully target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The "Dueling Dinosaurs" discovery became crucial to the research published by Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli that classified Nanotyrannus as separate from T. rex.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
And lo and behold, when Maggie was born, Sharon the Star became a doting, if somewhat flighty, grandmother.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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