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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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Hamblett became an apprentice jockey at 16 under champion trainer Sir Michael Stoute.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

She turned it down and went to work as an apprentice at a law firm instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The MP said the apprenticeship wage credit would result in businesses saving an average of £4,000-a-year per apprentice.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Christine is only slightly more experienced, no longer an atelier apprentice, but is just beginning to prove herself, constructing her first garment entirely on her own.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

Beetle was only the midwife’s stupid apprentice and no care to them.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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

But glassmakers on the island face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of apprentices and competition from counterfeits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Reform said its policy, which also includes a £2,000 retention bonus for apprentices, could cost between £1.48bn and almost £2bn over five years.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

“I do not take apprentices, Ranofer,” Zau said.

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

In England, Reinhold got a teaching job in the north, leaving George in London in 1767, apprenticed to a merchant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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

After Brooks apprenticed as a teen entertaining in the Catskills and served in World War II, Sid Caesar hired the young comedian on his own dime to write for “Your Show of Shows.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Now about fifteen years old—too young to be emancipated under Pennsylvania law—Isaac was apprenticed to a tinsmith, a Philadelphia Quaker.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

He likely grew up apprenticing in his father’s studio, and in the 1510s he and his brother set off for Basel to work independently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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

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

For the sound bath at First Congregational Church, which cost between $55 and $66 depending on whether you brought your own mat and pillow, Bawa brought together six sound healers — some experienced, some apprenticing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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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