preschooler

Definition of preschoolernext

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of preschooler That's why your preschooler might sit holding an empty glass, milk trickling onto their lap, and insist that a monster spilled it. Sarah Vanbuskirk, Parents, 10 Jan. 2026 For the people who can’t stand to use off-trend Command hooks, 3M has unveiled a Cloud Dancer line, and for the serenity-seeking preschooler, Play-Doh has released a special edition of its signature Doh. Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025 The snap showed the preschooler standing next to her father as the two gazed up at the sky with the rainbow peaking over the tall trees. Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025 Nikita Zadorov made the Buffalo Sabres defenseman look like a preschooler. Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for preschooler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preschooler
Noun
  • Back at Chalmers, Mckinley Morris watched his kindergartner bound toward Crockett, hugging him before racing through the colorful entryway.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Back at Chalmers, Mckinley Morris watched his kindergartner bound toward Crockett, hugging him before racing through the colorful entryway.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Johnece and Neal divorced back when Connor was a toddler.
    Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • These abuses include the murder of inmates’ infants, a fact that galvanizes the pregnant Alouette (the father of her child, Étienne, is a quarryman) into joining a plan for escape through the Paris sewers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Forty were younger children, including nine infants.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.
    Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The New Mexico Department of Health issued a warning Tuesday urging people to avoid consuming raw dairy products following the newborn’s death.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Illinois also broke with federal vaccine recommendations last year, deciding to continue to recommend hepatitis B vaccines for nearly all newborns and to continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for all children ages 6 to 23 months.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • In the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, a group of schoolkids passed by him in a frenzy.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Preschooler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preschooler. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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