apprentice
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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
Eamon Dunphy was a working-class boy from Dublin who started his playing career as an apprentice for Manchester United in the early 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The main points to know are that Mando is a bounty hunter for the good guys and Grogu is his Force-sensitive adopted child and apprentice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The quicker they find Moreau’s apprentice, the safer we’ll all be.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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But with tech having a growing influence over the curriculum, are apprentices now just learning how to run computer software, at the expense of the actual skills of a specific trade?
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
His scammers are hustlers and apprentices with lots of free time on their hands, freelancing in an informal economy of deception held together by cellphones and copied scripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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
At that moment, Sir Keir was on the way to meet apprentices in south west London.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Blacksmiths shout orders as apprentices jostle to follow them.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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In Pompeii, there are Avianius, a teenager apprenticed to a blacksmith, and Julia Felix, a rare female businesswoman who runs a kind of spa cum entertainment center for the well-to-do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
As a teenager in Rutland, Vt., he apprenticed himself to a photographer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“It is Gebu’s will, not mine, that I am apprenticed there, Master. He took me from Rekh’s goldhouse, where I had been working.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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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
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
Nervously avoiding Heqet’s puzzled gaze, he added, “Gebu cares nothing for goldworking. He sees no value in apprenticing me to Rekh.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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