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intern

[in-turn] / ˈɪn tɜrn /
NOUN
apprentice
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The law student told me Mamdani had never gone far enough to earn his vote, but protesters with him that day included an ex-Mamdani intern.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

A graduate of Pepperdine University's law school, Zacharia began her career in Republican politics, working as an intern for the Republican National Committee in 2006, CNN reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Jillian Vordick is a former graphics intern and part of the summer 2026 newsroom intern class at The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Once he had his foot in the door as an intern, success became an obsession, with bonuses becoming "a way of gauging how wonderfully successful a human being I was".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“More is on the way,” a nervous intern promises.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Natalie previously interned on the Journal’s Real-Time Desk in the summer of 2025 through the Dow Jones News Fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

While a student there, he interned at Massachusetts-based cloud computing company Akamai Technologies, German software company SAP, and Microsoft, according to his LinkedIn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He also interned with National Public Radio on the audience team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Parra, who is 24, interned in Collins’ congressional office in 2024 and worked as a contractor for a Collins-affiliated political action committee until last year.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

The third, called relocation, was just opening up: interned citizens who could find a job and a sponsor somewhere inland, away from the west coast, were beginning to trickle out of camp.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Epstein also placed Molchanova in internships arranged by his friends, including a stretch she describes interning for the publicist Peggy Siegal in 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Mendoza, a business student, spent his summers interning at commercial real estate and investing firms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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

Ginika was buying a dress for a dinner party, hosted by the lawyers she was interning with.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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