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Recent Examples of kindergarten
This map, mostly a county map, shows the percentage of mostly kindergarten-age children who are legally exempt from having to be vaccinated in order to attend school.
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Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 2 Jan. 2026
Drone strikes allegedly ordered by the RSF in early December struck a kindergarten and nearby hospital in Sudan's South Kordofan region, killing 114 people, including 63 children.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025
According to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services, kindergarten vaccination rates against pertussis were estimated to have dropped from almost 94% in the 2023–24 school year to less than 90% in 2024–25 in Dallas.
—Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
My son loved his first day of kindergarten.
—Marc Silver, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergarten
- school
- high school
- public school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- junior high school
- primary school
- middle school
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If your children do homework at the kitchen table instead of their bedrooms, find a spot to keep school supplies handy.—
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Instead, the program will change where the sales tax dollars go — redirecting dollars that would have otherwise been added to the state’s general fund to pay for highways, schools and other services to pay off the project’s debt and retire the bonds.—
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Silverfield visited Gilbert's high school during the recruiting process, which isn't the norm for head coaches with kickers.—
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The program is for high school students who are not four-year college bound and provides free mentorship and early career exposure along with help building skills.—
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Married to a public school teacher and dad to two daughters.—
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Also annually, a third element is $300,000 to each of 13 state public school collegiate athletic departments.—
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Prince George is also facing another major change, as he is set to turn 13 on July 22 and begin his secondary school career in the fall.—
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These groups provide financial help to elementary and secondary school students from low- and middle-income families.—
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One month after Amber’s murder, Williams visited her daughter’s elementary school classmates.—
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New Elementary School on Park Road CMS is constructing a new 45-classroom elementary school to serve students in Sedgefield and Dilworth, replacing Dilworth Elementary.—
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Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.—
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Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.—
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Partnering with the Irish Department of Education, the commission asked primary school students to document the folklore in their own communities.—
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After leaving his post-graduate engineering job, Nye kicked off a career in comedy before landing a pilot that would land him in primary school classrooms for years to come.—
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Investigators accuse him of coercing middle school football players to perform nude exercises in a locker room and secretly photographing them in various stages of undress.—
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The other case was brought by a West Virginia middle school student barred by state law from competing in school sports.—
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“Kindergarten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergarten. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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