kindergartens

noun

plural of kindergarten
as in schools

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  1. schools
  2. academies
Noun
  • Decades later, buses helped desegregate schools, hauling Black and white children across the country’s racial divide, a controversial practice that has mostly ended.
    — Jeff McMurray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Greenway's founders and advisers include tech executives, CEOs, a onetime Vermont secretary of education, a NASA engineer and current and former administrators from Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Tufts University and other schools.
    — Jon Marcus, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of schools
Noun
  • In soccer, for example, professional clubs operate academies that develop players before and during their professional careers.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Her biggest concern is that creating an academy modeled after the military service academies would conflate what NASA does—the peaceful, civil exploration of space—with military activities undertaken by the US Space Force.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of academies
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“Kindergartens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindergartens. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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