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intern

[in-turn] / ˈɪn tɜrn /
NOUN
apprentice
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Puente intern Mariana Chavez and editor Ricardo Sandoval contributed to this report.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Brian Roberts joined Comcast as a high school intern, setting up supermarket promotions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Elyse Goncalves is a reporting intern on the personal finance team and part of the summer 2026 newsroom intern class at The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

She previously worked as a reporting intern at the New Hampshire Union Leader, covering local politics, state funding and human interest stories.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

The intern did not have the least notion, but he had to say something.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Mitchell’s familiarity with lobbying might also come from experience, with Mitchell having interned at a lobbying firm, according to both Radio Iowa and his biography at Future Caucus, a group that supports young politicians.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

After graduating from San Diego State, she interned in the sports department at CBS affiliate KFMB-TV although she didn’t know much about sports.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

She covered New York politics as an intern for City & State NY, was a community editor for the Queens Ledger and Brooklyn Downtown Star, and interned at WHYY.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Before that, she interned for the city, working to track the amount Los Angeles was spending on its homelessness response.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

Even though they were interned, the Japanese created a community in the camp, so Mas was able to bring everything Jeanne had written to life.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Brennan Drolet, a rising college senior studying finance, is spending this summer interning at a bank in Massachusetts.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

Emil Michael, a 20-year-old finance and logistics management major at Ohio State University, is currently interning at a healthcare startup.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 2026

After graduating, he spent a summer interning at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company before moving to New York.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

Concannon is interning this semester at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office and is set to graduate this spring.

From Slate Apr. 6, 2026

The New York Times reports that they now prefer career-relevant activities like summer school or interning in an appropriate professional setting to the “sweaty, low-paid and mind-numbing slots that have long been their lot.”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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