as in nursery
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
attends pre-K
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Recent Examples of pre-K
So, the goal is to have a pre-K through eight school.
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Yvette Walker, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
At the time, our goal was to cover all of math from pre-K through the core of college.
—NBC news, 6 July 2025
Several projects, including the Belvedere reconstruction and universal pre-K, were not funded in this budget cycle.
—Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
The city took a chance on congestion pricing to reduce traffic and fund public transit, on universal pre-K to guarantee access to early childhood education, and on supervised injection sites to curb the overdose crisis.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 2 July 2025
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Yvette Walker, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
At the time, our goal was to cover all of math from pre-K through the core of college.
—NBC news, 6 July 2025
Several projects, including the Belvedere reconstruction and universal pre-K, were not funded in this budget cycle.
—Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
The city took a chance on congestion pricing to reduce traffic and fund public transit, on universal pre-K to guarantee access to early childhood education, and on supervised injection sites to curb the overdose crisis.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pre-K
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There were no patients in the labor rooms, no newborns in the nursery, and the halls were silent.—
John McHugh,
Mercury News,
30 July 2025
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Attorneys for Howard argued that damage to the nursery would have been negligible except the flood waters had been diverted across nursery land by embankments at the city’s new sewerage disposal plant.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
29 July 2025
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The researchers put this down to recent increases in preschool enrolment for three-year-olds, the safety levels in schools in the state, and the proportionally large budget per child enrolled in preschool.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
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Scheid’s son, who is autistic and nonverbal, qualified for developmental preschool before moving into the Pocatello-Chubbuck School District in eastern Idaho.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Right now, this work is almost always low-wage, which means these jobs are often worked by women, too: 94% of childcare workers and 97% of prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers are women.—
Katie Gatti Tassin,
Time,
10 June 2025
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Parkview Elementary: Cedarburg School District, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade.—
Cailey Gleeson,
Journal Sentinel,
15 Nov. 2024
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“Pre-K.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pre-K. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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