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intern

[in-turn] / ˈɪn tɜrn /
NOUN
apprentice
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Another to be supported is the intern involved - Will Salt - who was recently handed a permanent role as an analyst in the club's academy.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Aggrey started at SpaceX as an intern when he was 21, a decade after the company was incorporated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

There were no roster spots left, but Chesney agreed to let him be involved with the program as an intern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He later returned to conservative political circles, including a stint as an intern in then-Rep.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Thanks to the Christian Union, Havens’s present quarters as a ministry intern at Brown are actually more upscale than his home in St. Louis.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

While pursuing a computer-science doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in machine learning, Andrew Lai interned at Microsoft and Nvidia doing deep-learning research.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

Randy Susskind interned with us as a law student when he was at Georgetown University and became a staff attorney right out of law school.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The importance of career opportunities like networking and interning just wasn’t top of mind for Erle.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 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

“When I was in graduate school, interning at the museum. I was there on a scholarship for Fair students.”

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff




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