apprentice
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If you are under 19, or if you are 19 or older but in the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be paid at least the apprentice rate, external of £8 per hour.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Ross Simmons, 77, thinks his great-grandfather, John Simmons, might have borrowed the book to help with his career, having worked as an apprentice stonemason in Westminster in the mid-1800s before becoming an architect in Australia.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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
By the time he turned a corner and found the three apprentice boys crowded around the poor creature’s udders and snickering as they sprayed each other with milk, he was in a foul mood.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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His spokespeople said he will speak to Welsh workers and apprentices about "reindustrialisation, jobs and the cost of living".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
Businesses including PricewaterhouseCoopers and law firm Freshfields are bringing in more apprentices, saying it helps them tap a wider pool of candidates who can develop skills over a longer period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Jo Jackson, head of human resources, said she would like to hire more apprentices but training is expensive and the content apprentices are taught is not always "flexible enough".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
I wait outside her door, throwing black looks at the apprentices trying to get me to leave.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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"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
Celebrities in the space, such as Frank Oz, apprenticed at Fairyland, and Metz continues to run multiple shows per day, both revivals and original creations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
“When did you become apprenticed to a huntress?”
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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Roth made his way to Bloomington, Ill., apprenticing himself to an architect, later returning to Chicago, where he found work on the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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
Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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