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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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Gardner said he was "immensely proud" of his crewmates Ben Shutt, Liam Crosby and their apprentice Ada, as well as skipper Clive Easton, for their role in the historic - and fruitful - catch.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

"I remember going home after training, having been an apprentice, and telling my friends how close I had been to Kevin Keegan," Fairclough told BBC Radio Merseyside.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The term “masterpiece” originally referred to the work produced by an apprentice to prove that he was entitled to become a master.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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

She’s also an apprentice grant writer for “a handful” of nonprofits, and she’s the VP of her university’s Pride organization.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

But glassmakers on the island face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of apprentices and competition from counterfeits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Businesses including PricewaterhouseCoopers and law firm Freshfields are bringing in more apprentices, saying it helps them tap a wider pool of candidates who can develop skills over a longer period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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

Instead, he studied computer science at the University of Birmingham alongside apprentices who secured a place on the same programme he was rejected from.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Smart apprentices were always getting ahead by marrying into their masters’ families.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

"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

He apprenticed in Paris with Constantin Brancusi—who had briefly assisted Auguste Rodin—absorbing a sculptural vocabulary grounded in direct carving and essential form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

Instead of attending a traditional law school, Kardashian apprenticed with attorneys for six years under California’s Law Office Study Program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

“Nay, I—I am apprenticed to my half brother, Gebu the stonecutter.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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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