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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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In the summer after high school, I worked as a stage apprentice at theaters in Mount Kisco and Rye, N.Y.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Now he assembles components for data centers, making around $30 an hour as an apprentice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The apprentice butcher joined the Territorial Army when he was 17, before the war broke out, because he wanted "something to do".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The MP said the apprenticeship wage credit would result in businesses saving an average of £4,000-a-year per apprentice.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Another apprentice sketches a map, possibly for transfer onto a plate.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

At the event at the Ironworkers Training Center in La Palma organized by labor leaders to oppose the wealth tax, apprentices attended workshops about rigging and collective bargaining rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

For 18 to 20 year olds the rate is £10.85, and for under 18s and apprentices it is £8.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

He said that apprentices are also beneficial to employers, since their salaries are low and they tend to be better learners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

U.K. companies hired 8% more apprentices in 2025, while hiring of college graduates contracted by 8%, according to a survey in 2025 by the Institute of Student Employers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

As Maria watched, her father and his apprentices carved maps and illustrations onto copper plates.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

"After his studies in London, he was apprenticed to other stonemasons to help in the construction of the Houses of Parliament," Simmons said.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In England, Reinhold got a teaching job in the north, leaving George in London in 1767, apprenticed to a merchant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The younger Angel played sax in the family band, went to barber college in Pasadena, apprenticed in Williams, then came home in 1950 to take over his father’s old shop along Route 66.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Samuel Slater, born in 1768 into a farming family in Derbyshire, England, was apprenticed at age 14 to the owner of a cotton mill that was using the novel Arkwright water frame.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

“Meaning the master you were to be apprenticed to?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

He likely grew up apprenticing in his father’s studio, and in the 1510s he and his brother set off for Basel to work independently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Some say she has been apprenticing as a cobbler in the Italian countryside; others, that she’s formed an ice cave—and won the trust of indigenous penguin tribes—in Antarctica.

From Slate ● May 25, 2024

By the next year, she was studying at Tokyo University of the Arts and apprenticing at Handa Kyuseido, a relative newcomer in the multigenerational-family conservator field.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

For the sound bath at First Congregational Church, which cost between $55 and $66 depending on whether you brought your own mat and pillow, Bawa brought together six sound healers — some experienced, some apprenticing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers


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