kindergartner

variants also kindergartener
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Recent Examples of kindergartner 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 Neither child has been publicly identified, though the 5-year-old boy was a kindergartener at Timberline Elementary, Principal Mary Bowens wrote in a Wednesday email to parents. Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026 White paper over a white tablecloth, pinned there like mittens on a kindergartner’s coat. Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for kindergartner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
  • What Mulaney didn’t anticipate was that the private tour of Elvis Presley’s former home would become the setting for one of parenting’s most unexpected conversations — explaining death to a preschooler.
    Ryan Brennan April 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In their off-hours, one employee was nursing an infant and homeschooling a preschooler, and another worked a second job as a real estate agent.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • The mayor again invited upset schoolkids to throw snowballs at him.
    Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Or how to pack for a long-haul flight with toddlers?
    Laurel Pantin, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2026
  • More than a year after treatment began, doctors at CHLA confirmed that the toddler's eye cancer was inactive after conducting a test that uses fluid from inside the eye to determine if the cancer is active or inactive.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The infamous novel is the story of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island following a deadly plane crash.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Vince was a good schoolboy footballer, represented County Durham and went on trial with Middlesbrough, the club his son would later coach.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • He was brought to the center as an adolescent with a broken wing (possibly due to a collision with a car) and can no longer fly properly.
    Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
  • An adolescent with severe menstrual pain and vomiting may first present to a pediatrician.
    Sarah Berg, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Choose from a big assortment of polish, gift sets, treatments and polish for kids.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The first generation of parents to have resorted, at least occasionally, to mollifying their children by putting digital screens in their hands has now seen those kids grow up.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • An only child of negligent parents, Mihich identified with the Roald Dahl character Matilda, a precocious schoolgirl who learns to fend for herself against sometimes cruel adults.
    Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026

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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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