apprenticed
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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
As a teenager in Rutland, Vt., he apprenticed himself to a photographer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
She never learned to write, but she was apprenticed in 1815 as a “servant” for “housewifery” to William Reeves until she turned 18.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024
Gonzalez, who apprenticed under Angelyne’s original billboard painters, thinks of some of these lawyers as present-day Angelynes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024
With an inheritance of £100 he was sent to London to be apprenticed to the artist Sir Peter Lely.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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