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also kindergartener
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Recent Examples of kindergartner
Seidle sketches out miniature worlds on his Casio with the oblong abstractions of a kindergartener doodling on a piece of paper, his primitive songs existing in a kind of nascent pre-genre state.
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Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Nathy Mbuyi was a kindergartener at Cheney Hills Elementary, the school’s principal, Cheryl Waddell, wrote in a message sent to parents.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
Targeting a mother worried about her feverish child, a father bringing his newborn to the pediatrician for weight check, or a kindergartener coming home from school promotes cruelty, not safety.
—Dr. Lauren Palladino, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
Edwards is planning to move her kindergartner out of LAUSD to attend a charter school that limits screen time next school year.
—Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Nathy Mbuyi was a kindergartener at Cheney Hills Elementary, the school’s principal, Cheryl Waddell, wrote in a message sent to parents.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
Targeting a mother worried about her feverish child, a father bringing his newborn to the pediatrician for weight check, or a kindergartener coming home from school promotes cruelty, not safety.
—Dr. Lauren Palladino, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
Edwards is planning to move her kindergartner out of LAUSD to attend a charter school that limits screen time next school year.
—Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
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No preschooler suctioned to my side.—
Alexandra Oliva
June 1,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Not just in the terrifying hours before a hurricane or a wildfire, but in the weeks afterward — when the emergency is over and the fear isn't, and a preschooler still has no words for what happened to their home.—
Afdhel Aziz,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
Noun
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Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people, including a schoolchild, died at the scene, although that was according to preliminary information.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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For an ordinary schoolkid on a baseball diamond, having aretê might amount to paying attention, being a team player, and trying hard.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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At the center of the doc is the engaging Clint Patterson, who was a schoolkid when his father, a former rodeo rider, spearheaded the making of the Bigfoot film and its promotion.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This is best displayed in the no spill Paw Patrol cup provided to my toddler at one of the restaurants.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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Take a Step Back If your toddler is having trouble with a shape sorter, you might be tempted to take the circle and drop it into the right slot for them.—
Dina Gachman,
Parents,
30 May 2026
Noun
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Ghosts of Iraqi Freedom A few days after my ride across town, on April 7, a rocket fired by militiamen landed in an empty room in a house in my neighborhood, and another killed an eight-year-old schoolboy named Siraj in nearby al-Amiriyah.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
26 May 2026
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The accordionist stomped sideways under the stage lights, sweat running down his temples, looking like Angus Young sans schoolboy shorts.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
Noun
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No, rest is for the lazy, the Caucasian adolescent, the indolent, the indulgent—until the age of thirty.—
Taiye Selasi,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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Gadd gained almost 90 pounds to play adult Ruben (Stuart Campbell in flashbacks), the fractured older-brother figure of Niall (Jamie Bell as an adult; Mitchell Robertson as an adolescent), while their mothers date each other.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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School kids arrived on field trips and groups lined up for exhibitions, taking the escalators up past the abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s vibrant, 83-foot-tall vertical window.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Bell-to-bell phone bans are among the strategies proposed in a new Surgeon General's advisory warning of the threat excessive screen time can pose to kids.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.—
Madison Darbyshire,
Bloomberg,
13 Mar. 2026
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The al-Roj camp also houses Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who ran away at the age of 15 to join ISIS in 2015 and was subsequently stripped of her British citizenship.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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