kindergartner

variants also kindergartener

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Recent Examples of kindergartner The vaccination rate among kindergartners in Tarrant County is around 91.5%. Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2025 For the 2023-24 school year, 96.2% of California’s kindergartners were vaccinated against measles, according to the CDC — one of the higher rates of any state. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025 The grade school was founded in 2013 and serves kindergartners through fifth graders. Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 18 June 2025 One of the school’s kindergartners this year racked up almost 60 unexcused absences by March. Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindergartner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
  • Some read with preschoolers at Dixie Manor, a public housing complex.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2025
  • Denver’s drop-in center will have two classrooms — one for babies and toddlers and one for preschoolers — and a separate play area.
    Ann Schimke, Denver Post, 9 July 2025
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
  • In the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, a group of schoolkids passed by him in a frenzy.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
  • Go into its gang-run projects, offer the shot callers something of value, and ask for their assistance making the streets safer for schoolkids and grandmas, their own included.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her.
    Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR, 22 July 2025
  • Some of the parents who say their toddlers were abused by employees at Parker-Chase Preschool in Roswell, about an hour north of Atlanta, were in the courtroom Monday waiting to voice their opposition to the pretrial diversion deals when Carnesale recused herself instead.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Tempest, grateful for his schoolboy French, paused to talk to her.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • The four-part series followed a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who was arrested after a girl in his school was murdered.
    Dory Jackson, People.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Instead of feeling supported, adolescents may start to believe that there’s something wrong with them, rather than recognizing it as something understandable, that deserves empathy.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • The new analysis concludes that about 8.4 million U.S. adolescents — or nearly 33% — have prediabetes.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Byron is reportedly married and shares two kids with his wife, who is not Cabot.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • In one photo, the former professional athlete could be seen towering over his kids and wearing a white matching set.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • That definitely includes Iris Manter, who stars as Matilda Wormwood, the English schoolgirl with telekinetic powers from Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Silent Hill f will follow Shimizu Hinako, a schoolgirl from the fictional regional Japanese town of Ebisugaoka, as her town is consumed by the series' signature fog.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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