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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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There was another teenage apprentice taken on that tour of Australia alongside Joseph.

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

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

Just who is this apprentice that has my brother and Maria?

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

But the craft is in peril due to inflation, fewer skilled apprentices and other challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

His spokespeople said he will speak to Welsh workers and apprentices about "reindustrialisation, jobs and the cost of living".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He said that apprentices are also beneficial to employers, since their salaries are low and they tend to be better learners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

One of the apprentices stood there drawing wire, his shoulder muscles bunched with the effort of pulling a greased, reed-slim ingot through a hole just too small for it.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

"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

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

Too many long to be one of us—and knowing that they can never be makes their longing even greater, for all scythes are apprenticed in their youth.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

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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