apprentice

The apprentice butcher joined the Territorial Army when he was 17, before the war broke out, because he wanted "something to do".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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

The 19-year-old college student compares herself to an apprentice learning from a master artisan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

I had the master key because another one of my summer jobs was assistant apprentice super for my family’s complex.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

At accounting firm Grant Thornton, just 10% of U.K. trainee intakes were apprentices in 2010.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

He said that apprentices are also beneficial to employers, since their salaries are low and they tend to be better learners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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

A DWP spokeswoman said the government was introducing a bursary for apprentices whose families receive Universal Credit.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Perhaps one of the apprentices had been hiding gold dust in his sandal.

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

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

He apprenticed himself to the great artists, ancient and modern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

As a teenager in Rutland, Vt., he apprenticed himself to a photographer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Too many long to be one of us—and knowing that they can never be makes their longing even greater, for all scythes are apprenticed in their youth.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

In the 1990s, Morot had given the town a shot, apprenticing with other designers, learning his craft and drinking in the city until he needed to move back to Canada for family reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

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

At my parents for dying and my brother for apprenticing himself to a Martial.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir