as in nursery
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
attends pre-K
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Recent Examples of pre-K
Sadly, after Invest in Kids expired, a number of private schools also folded, including St. Odilo School in Berwyn, a pre-K to eighth grade Catholic school.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Originally approved for preschool and pre-K, the story portrays a family whose puppy gets lost at a LGBTQ+ Pride parade, devoting a page to each letter of the alphabet.
—Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
How Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program became a model for its progressive peers.
—Coleman Lowndes, Vox, 8 May 2025
The days of dodging class or suffering from a lack of motivation appear to be a thing of the past at Alpha School, a private pre-K through eighth grade institution that utilizes personalized artificial intelligence to teach an entire day of core academic lessons in just two hours.
—Alex Backus, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Originally approved for preschool and pre-K, the story portrays a family whose puppy gets lost at a LGBTQ+ Pride parade, devoting a page to each letter of the alphabet.
—Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
How Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program became a model for its progressive peers.
—Coleman Lowndes, Vox, 8 May 2025
The days of dodging class or suffering from a lack of motivation appear to be a thing of the past at Alpha School, a private pre-K through eighth grade institution that utilizes personalized artificial intelligence to teach an entire day of core academic lessons in just two hours.
—Alex Backus, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pre-K
Noun
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Proceeds will support the project’s nursery, which is featured in a new Save LA Cougars video explaining how all the crossing’s native plants, soils and compost have been chosen and nurtured.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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King eventually managed half of the plantings, working with area nurseries on sapling and seed provenance, as NRG ecologists tried to keep pace.—
Robert Sullivan,
Curbed,
9 June 2025
Noun
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On My Way Pre-K provides state vouchers for quality, free preschool for 4-year-olds from income-eligible families.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2025
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The incident took place near a grocery store and preschool.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
10 June 2025
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Right now, this work is almost always low-wage, which means these jobs are often worked by women, too: 94% of childcare workers and 97% of prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers are women.—
Katie Gatti Tassin,
Time,
10 June 2025
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Parkview Elementary: Cedarburg School District, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade.—
Cailey Gleeson,
Journal Sentinel,
15 Nov. 2024
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“Pre-K.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pre-K. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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