apprentice
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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
Gardner said he was "immensely proud" of his crewmates Ben Shutt, Liam Crosby and their apprentice Ada, as well as skipper Clive Easton, for their role in the historic - and fruitful - catch.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
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
She was a midwife’s apprentice with a newborn hope of being someday a midwife herself.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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There are different rates of pay for apprentices, external depending on their age and what stage of apprenticeship they are in.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
His spokespeople said he will speak to Welsh workers and apprentices about "reindustrialisation, jobs and the cost of living".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Smart apprentices were always getting ahead by marrying into their masters’ families.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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 Pompeii, there are Avianius, a teenager apprenticed to a blacksmith, and Julia Felix, a rare female businesswoman who runs a kind of spa cum entertainment center for the well-to-do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
“That boy is apprenticed here, isn’t he?” she asked.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
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
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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