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also kindergartener
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Recent Examples of kindergartner
Aaliyah said her son is a kindergartener at Ludlow Elementary, and that changing schools could be hard.
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Dan Snyder, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
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%.
—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
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Dan Snyder, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
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%.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
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The preschooler wandered the room, swinging a thin plastic rod from a set of window blinds like a toy sword.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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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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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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Police said the toddler was alive and was immediately taken for medical evaluation.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
1 Mar. 2026
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Many cribs can be transformed into toddler beds later on, too.—
Deborah Skolnik,
Parents,
1 Mar. 2026
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As a young schoolboy, Davidson was often cruelly stigmatized because no one had bothered to diagnose his disorder.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
23 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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Unfolding in 1870s Oxford with adventures abroad, the series will expose the early antics of the anarchic adolescent who is yet to evolve into Baker Street’s most renowned resident.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
1 Mar. 2026
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The brave teen tried to deescalate the situation but Rivas, 45, turned the knife on the boy instead, stabbing the adolescent in the neck, shoulder and cheek, prosecutors said.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
1 Mar. 2026
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The Legislature and Newsom acted when the low reading skills of California’s kids, as determined by nationwide testing, became too obvious to ignore.—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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Enjoy sports events, fun activities with kids, the theater, the arts and hanging out with fun people.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
26 Feb. 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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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 4 Mar. 2026.
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