kindergartner

variants also kindergartener

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Recent Examples of kindergartner Nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the county did not get the vaccine in the 2023-24 school year. Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025 In Illinois, about 91.6% of kindergartners had received the MMR vaccine during the 2023-2024 school year. Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 Monroe County: 92% of kindergartners were vaccinated, a slight improvement from the previous school year. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2025 In 2013, roughly 7.5% of kindergartners in the county had parents or guardians who filed for an exemption for at least one vaccine. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindergartner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergartner
Noun
  • The program is designed for preschoolers, but children of all ages are welcome.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Just like the parents of millions of toddlers and preschoolers, Ms. Rachel is a part of actor Robert De Niro's life.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Danielle and Richard each had one young child at the time — a toddler and a teen, respectively.
    Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2025
  • For instance, François Boucher’s eighteenth-century paintings of toddlers engaged in the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers previously formed an odd parenthetical downstairs.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 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
  • Nearly 1 in 4 children and adolescents experience these disorders, Fletcher added.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2025
  • From 2017 to 2020, the prevalence of obesity among U.S. children and adolescents was 19.7%, with 14.7 million children aged 2–19 years having obesity, according to the CDC.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The nonprofit provides underprivileged kids with a custom birthday cake free of charge.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • However, Goldstein’s distribution team strategically positioned the movie to open ahead of spring break, when plenty of kids have time off from school.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An 11-year-old schoolgirl from Japan has become an international sensation after one of her original songs, composed entirely on an iPad in secret after school, went viral online.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Further research says up to 46 percent of schoolgirls felt their breasts were a barrier to exercise.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Kindergartner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartner. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

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