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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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Now he assembles components for data centers, making around $30 an hour as an apprentice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

At Yorkshire-based manufacturing company Fives, most apprentices are at lower levels and study at nearby Keighley College, but there is one degree apprentice.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

"I remember going home after training, having been an apprentice, and telling my friends how close I had been to Kevin Keegan," Fairclough told BBC Radio Merseyside.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The term “masterpiece” originally referred to the work produced by an apprentice to prove that he was entitled to become a master.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

He was a stonecutter’s apprentice and, tedious though it might be, he had resolved to learn his trade.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

A spokesperson said apprentices at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust were inadvertently underpaid between 2019 and 2023.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The firm said the prospects and progression of its apprentices has been no different from others coming in through different routes, including graduate programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Each of these men had workmen and apprentices under him.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

"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

He apprenticed in Paris with Constantin Brancusi—who had briefly assisted Auguste Rodin—absorbing a sculptural vocabulary grounded in direct carving and essential form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

“To make sure no gentleman decides to grab you up as his servant, I have apprenticed you to John Laydon. You will become a carpenter in your own right.”

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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

Chiarello started apprenticing in restaurants at only 14 and then attended the Culinary Institute of America in New York, where he graduated in 1982 and went on to study and work in restaurants in Florida.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

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

He became a woodworker, apprenticing at a nearby shop owned by a broad-minded Unitarian.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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