apprentice

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

At Yorkshire-based manufacturing company Fives, most apprentices are at lower levels and study at nearby Keighley College, but there is one degree apprentice.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

By the time he turned a corner and found the three apprentice boys crowded around the poor creature’s udders and snickering as they sprayed each other with milk, he was in a foul mood.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

The firm said the prospects and progression of its apprentices has been no different from others coming in through different routes, including graduate programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Alyce left the barn and went next to the smithy, where the manor blacksmith and his apprentices were hammering lumps of iron into shoes for horses.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

"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

John Van Nostrand Dorr was born in 1872, long before the Model T. He grew up in New Jersey, where he apprenticed under Thomas Edison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 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

She apprenticed at the Cleveland Playhouse at a time when the theater was venturing into musicals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

On their orders, Royal apprenticed with a printer as soon as he was old enough to labor.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Roth made his way to Bloomington, Ill., apprenticing himself to an architect, later returning to Chicago, where he found work on the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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

He became a woodworker, apprenticing at a nearby shop owned by a broad-minded Unitarian.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead