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also kindergartener
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Recent Examples of kindergartner
This map of per-county kindergartner vaccination percentages in Utah and Arizona shows that all but two counties have percentages below the 95% level needed for herd immunity, with nine counties having percentages lower than 85%.
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Erika Edwards, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
Ensuring the wide-eyed kindergartner pacing the halls realizes their eventual potential.
—Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
Just last summer, WJZ reported that a 6-year-old kindergartener with special needs was mistakenly placed on a school bus after the first day of summer school at Pleasant Plains Elementary School.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
Your pre-schooler or kindergartner has a whole new way to explore Adventure Bay in PAW Patrol Academy.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
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Erika Edwards, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
Ensuring the wide-eyed kindergartner pacing the halls realizes their eventual potential.
—Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
Just last summer, WJZ reported that a 6-year-old kindergartener with special needs was mistakenly placed on a school bus after the first day of summer school at Pleasant Plains Elementary School.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
Your pre-schooler or kindergartner has a whole new way to explore Adventure Bay in PAW Patrol Academy.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
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After more than a week at the Dilley center, the preschooler and his Ecuadorian father are back home in Minneapolis after a judge ordered them to be released.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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The five year old Ecuadorian preschooler was held for more than a week with his father at an immigration facility in south Texas after being arrested by ICE agents before a federal judge ordered his return over the weekend.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 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
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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
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President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to revive the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolkids, more than a decade after it was discontinued.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
31 July 2025
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In the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, a group of schoolkids passed by him in a frenzy.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
25 June 2025
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That’s a communication disorder that develops when kids don’t have consistent access to a language — whether ASL or English — as babies and toddlers.—
Claire Rafford,
IndyStar,
9 Feb. 2026
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Johnece and Neal divorced back when Connor was a toddler.—
Stephanie Slifer,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Shaheed Aitzaz Hassan Bangash, a fifteen-year-old Pakistani schoolboy, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school, where the bomber would have killed two thousand students.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Before boarding the bus, schoolboy Harrison Higgins, who bangs the drum, literally, for Darlo, optimistically predicts a 2-1 away win.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.—
Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Driscoll’s workbook on mental health care for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes also walks through various strategies, including communication and problem-solving skills.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Yet, on a warm fall afternoon, while playing hide-and-seek with other kids in her mother's yard, the petite 6-year-old girl wearing a sundress vanished.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026
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Over the period from 2002 to 2021, global aid helped reduce child mortality by 39% for kids under 5.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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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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The British Vogue cover girl, beloved by David Bailey, Terence Donovan, and Ossie Clark, met George Harrison at 19, when she was cast as a schoolgirl in 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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