kindergartner

variants also kindergartener

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Recent Examples of kindergartner The 5-year-old was a kindergartener and the 7-year-old was a second grader at Cornelius Elementary School, a school official said. Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025 In another instance, a school tried to unlawfully police where a kindergartner could bring their wheelchair. Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025 The kindergartner loved basketball, soccer and Legos. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025 Parent Andrea Miller of Arlington Heights made Valentine’s Day cards of encouragement to anonymous recipients with children Maggie Miller, 8, a second-grader and Gwen Miller, 5, a kindergartner. Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindergartner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
  • Last year, Geminus Head Start served 1,672 children in Lake and Porter counties, including 1,123 preschoolers — nearly 10% of the area’s preschool-age population.
    Christin Lazerus, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The American-Statesman began scrutinizing the regulation of commercial vehicles earlier this year after a concrete pump truck slammed into a Hays school bus near Bastrop in a wreck that killed two people, including a preschooler.
    Tony Plohetski, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • Daily, adults and schoolkids take in exhibits about chattel slavery and Jim Crow, Reconstruction and the civil-rights movement, and leave with a deeper understanding of American history in all its darkness and its promise.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • What makes the book such a joyful surprise are the unique stories Wolf shares – meeting first lady Eleanor Roosevelt as a schoolkid, his tenure living with future Hollywood icon David Lynch.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The toddler had wandered away from his home in Seligman, Arizona, about 180 miles southeast of Las Vegas, and into rough terrain.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The stakes here for the rule of law couldn’t be higher, but the right approach for courts should be familiar to anyone who has raised a toddler.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This truth is at the heart of Adolescence, Netflix’s new drama by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham—an impeccable, if harrowing, exploration of the trepidatious transition of boyhood to manhood and the ultimate radicalization of a schoolboy.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2025
  • When a group of schoolboy cricketers founded the club in 1882, their choice of name was ‘Hotspur FC’.
    Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition, a summer camp is offered for teens and adolescents.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
  • It was used to study the impact of puberty blockers on adolescents' health.
    Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The massacre, which also wounded 21 people, became a blueprint for dozens of copycats and shattered the notion that kids were safe in school.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
  • And as kids grow, the questions can get more complex.
    Maya Payne Smart, Contributor, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That interaction, Riki said, has become a powerful learning tool and source of motivation for the schoolgirl.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • What To Know In enacting the decree, Oryol has become the first region in the country to offer payment to schoolgirls who become pregnant, according to the Moscow Times.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025

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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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