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
The mosque shares an address with the Lower Campus of Bright Horizon Academy, a private Muslim school serving pre-K through 12th grade students, according to the school’s 2025 annual report.
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Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
Bear Creek Intermediate, Parkwood Hill Intermediate and Trinity Meadow Intermediate will close after the 2026-27 school year, and the district will transition to pre-K through fifth grade at the elementary schools and sixth to eighth grade at the middle schools for the 2027-28 school year.
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Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
By August 2022, Agan would begin teaching at Clifford School, which serves students in pre-K through eighth grade in Redwood City.
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Holly McDede,
ProPublica,
12 May 2026
Research from Education Next shows the declines are not only in older grades, but also in pre-K and kindergarten.
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Tina Dello Russo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
Bear Creek Intermediate, Parkwood Hill Intermediate and Trinity Meadow Intermediate will close after the 2026-27 school year, and the district will transition to pre-K through fifth grade at the elementary schools and sixth to eighth grade at the middle schools for the 2027-28 school year.
—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
By August 2022, Agan would begin teaching at Clifford School, which serves students in pre-K through eighth grade in Redwood City.
—
Holly McDede,
ProPublica,
12 May 2026
Research from Education Next shows the declines are not only in older grades, but also in pre-K and kindergarten.
—
Tina Dello Russo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for pre-K
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pre-K
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The infant plants are sourced from local nurseries, and the planting itself is done by humans at this point.
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In 2019, as Scientific American reported at the time, researchers discovered that some poison frog dads may travel as far as 400 meters (or about a quarter of a mile) in an apparent search for ideal nursery grounds.
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Days after the Goleta get-together, Santa Barbara dad Eric Drachman became a celebrity at the preschool of his daughter, Noa, who is soon to be 3.
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Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of researchers conducted a series of experiments on children at a local preschool.
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Say that a presidential candidate wants to create universal prekindergarten, implement a comprehensive parental-leave policy, lower the Medicare-eligibility age, and invest in clean energy and cancer research.
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New York state lost enrollment last school year, even as New York City, which already has universal prekindergarten, is charging ahead with a plan to make all child care free for younger children.
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“Pre-K.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pre-K. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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