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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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If you are under 19, or if you are 19 or older but in the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be paid at least the apprentice rate, external of £8 per hour.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The 19-year-old college student compares herself to an apprentice learning from a master artisan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Christine is only slightly more experienced, no longer an atelier apprentice, but is just beginning to prove herself, constructing her first garment entirely on her own.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2026

"Does it really sound like the president of the United States to run a televised program for who would be his next apprentice?"

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Taking Beetle gave her cheap labor and an apprentice too stupid and scared to be any competition.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

What is an apprenticeship and how much are apprentices paid?

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

They are responsible for ensuring apprentices work with experienced staff and receive time away from their job to complete their studying.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Generations before aspiring communicators began attending journalism schools, and centuries before some of them skipped formal training altogether and simply declared themselves online influencers, most future news professionals launched their careers as indentured apprentices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Overall, Bloomberg said its latest spending will support these sorts of efforts in half a dozen states, including classroom renovations and paid work stipends for student apprentices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Andrew Brown’s print shop smelled of ink and grease and the sweat of muscular apprentices carrying trays of lead type from the composing table to the printing press.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

"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

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

At age 17, Homer was apprenticed to a Boston lithographer, where he practiced his draftsmanship and learned about composition, process and business.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

“When did you become apprenticed to a huntress?”

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

In the 1990s, Morot had given the town a shot, apprenticing with other designers, learning his craft and drinking in the city until he needed to move back to Canada for family reasons.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2025

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

At my parents for dying and my brother for apprenticing himself to a Martial.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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