apprentice
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Back in the summer of 2022, he was a teenage apprentice taken on tour to Australia and thrust into the second Test as a last-minute replacement.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
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
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
When Leonardo is an apprentice, painters in Italy use tempera: water plus color plus egg yolk.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
At accounting firm Grant Thornton, just 10% of U.K. trainee intakes were apprentices in 2010.
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
With the apprentices off doing their work, he was alone, but that didn’t make him feel better.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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"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
Celebrities in the space, such as Frank Oz, apprenticed at Fairyland, and Metz continues to run multiple shows per day, both revivals and original creations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
At least he’s apprenticed and won’t face the war.
From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
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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
His uncles started a group called Banda La Movida, and Vallejo is still teaching himself acoustic guitar when he’s not apprenticing as a hat maker at Márquez Clásico, crafting tejanas and sombreros de charro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 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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