kindergartner

variants also kindergartener

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Recent Examples of kindergartner The grade school was founded in 2013 and serves kindergartners through fifth graders. Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 18 June 2025 One of the school’s kindergartners this year racked up almost 60 unexcused absences by March. Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025 Race and Kindergarten Readiness Share of Ohio kindergartners demonstrating kindergarten readiness in fall 2024. Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 31 May 2025 So how do these young teens – who were third graders when the pandemic began and kindergartners when President Donald Trump first took office – perceive school and their life beyond childhood? Jackie Valley, Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindergartner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
  • The early education provider will be for infants starting at six-weeks old, toddlers and preschoolers.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Here’s everything families can expect from the upcoming series for preschoolers.
    Clea Haran, Parents, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • In the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, a group of schoolkids passed by him in a frenzy.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
  • Go into its gang-run projects, offer the shot callers something of value, and ask for their assistance making the streets safer for schoolkids and grandmas, their own included.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • The toddler stopped crying about 15 minutes after she had been put down for a nap.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • The toddler was with his father, Aaron Dontay Williams, 41, whose car was located in Giles County, Tennessee, the Auburn Police Department said in a Friday, July 11, news release.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Although still a schoolboy preparing for his GCSEs, Monga was registered as an academy player and, as such, a club couldn’t approach him or his family officially.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 12 June 2025
  • Roberts, who often looked to me like an English schoolboy—rumpled shirt, rep tie—had worked with Tina to transform the British magazine Tatler from a staid society rag into a place of mischief.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • The World Health Organization says that 81 percent of adolescents worldwide do not get enough physical activity, noting that rates of sedentary behavior in young people tend to rise as their country develops economically.
    Henry Abbott, The Atlantic, 12 July 2025
  • Another study said that the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate for adolescents and young adults increased to 66.3 percent between 2016 and 2022 — a number that jumped by 17 percent per month in 2020 alone.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • This is especially good for those staple items kids are always using – notebooks, binders, folders, colored pencils, pens and more.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
  • Does a person with this much contempt for texts by day insist on reading aloud to his kids at night?
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Silent Hill f will follow Shimizu Hinako, a schoolgirl from the fictional regional Japanese town of Ebisugaoka, as her town is consumed by the series' signature fog.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • All of that parliamentary time, all of that effort, just to deter the schoolgirls of England from falling in love with each other in double maths.
    Claire Lynch June 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025

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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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