preschooler

Definition of preschoolernext

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Recent Examples of preschooler 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, 19 Mar. 2026 Sons Michael, 5, a preschooler, and Jonathan, 8, a second-grader, were plungers. Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for preschooler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preschooler
Noun
  • The emotional service and burial come after the Wellesley church held a vigil for the two young elementary school students — Kai was a second grader and Ella was a kindergartener, both at Schofield Elementary School — in April, according to NBC 10 Boston.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • Our program, by contrast, automatically enrolls every public school kindergartener, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status, unless their family opts out.
    Debra-Ellen Glickstein, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the open spaces, people kicked balls around (including my toddler, who blasted a shot past me and knocked over the beer of a Colombia fan who was very, very nice about the whole thing) or found shade under the only tree.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • As Brennen gets closer, the eager toddler holds up his hands to reveal a fun, new look.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • State regulations require specific teacher-to-child ratios, and those ratios become especially demanding with infants and toddlers.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • During the final weeks of her life, the infant was taken off the top of the transplant list twice due to complications related to her VSD.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • If an adolescent is receiving inaccurate information or becoming overly dependent on a chatbot, the adults in their life may never know.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 11 June 2026
  • These provisions also do not guarantee that an adolescent will be granted an exception.
    Sunaya Krishnapura, STAT, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • In 1991, the CDC began recommending all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, departing from prior recommendations to vaccinate only newborns whose mothers had tested positive for hepatitis B or were at risk of contracting it.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Ahead of her newborn's arrival, Josie made a hilarious video with her husband, acting out a scene that Love Island USA season 7 contestant Amaya Espinal said during the show.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • In that year in the United States the number of lost kids had dropped to just over two per hundred.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • The hotel is appropriate for kids, and, with a registration fee, 3–15-year-olds can participate in a Central Park day camp.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.
    Dave Schilling Contributing Follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Ghosts of Iraqi Freedom A few days after my ride across town, on April 7, a rocket fired by militiamen landed in an empty room in a house in my neighborhood, and another killed an eight-year-old schoolboy named Siraj in nearby al-Amiriyah.
    Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

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“Preschooler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preschooler. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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