prentice
Example Sentences
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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At the far end of the bar, the smith’s prentice finally retrieved his iron rod from under the table and stretched to his full height.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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"By the by, you two haven't met, have you? Widge, this is Chris Beeston. Not so long ago he was a lowly prentice like us."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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"When your voice changes. If you're a good prentice, meantime."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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