as in nursery
a school for children who are generally less than five years old
parents trying to find the right nursery school for their children
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Recent Examples of nursery school
Barney & Friends premiered on PBS in 1988 and the live-action show became must-see TV among the nursery school set.
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
Zoning began as a mechanism to prevent nursery schools next to slaughterhouses.
—Joshua Stein, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
Everyone tells the new nursery school teacher, American Francesca Loftfield, how safe the village is.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Things became slightly trickier with their second child, because his nursery school was a 25-minute walk away from their home.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
Zoning began as a mechanism to prevent nursery schools next to slaughterhouses.
—Joshua Stein, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
Everyone tells the new nursery school teacher, American Francesca Loftfield, how safe the village is.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Things became slightly trickier with their second child, because his nursery school was a 25-minute walk away from their home.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursery school
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Over 1,000 trees were grown at a nursery in Italy to be used throughout the six hectare landscape.Amy Rose Dobson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Photo : Molly Culver One bedroom connects to a nursery.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
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As police methodically cleared the K-12 school, which sits on a 28-acre campus with a preschool and a church, city buses took students to a clinic down the road serving as a reunification point.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
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The school choice program allows Connecticut families with students entering preschool through 12th grade to apply to attend several different types of public schools in the Greater Hartford region.Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Dec. 2024
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It was already filled with a day nursery, sewing classes and Sunday school.Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
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The organization’s beginning can be traced back to 1881, when a local women’s group named Western Association incorporated as Detroit Day Nursery and Kindergarten Association to provide a day nursery for working mothers.Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
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“Nursery school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursery%20school. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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