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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"You wouldn't be the first prentice who's run off. Sander said you'd found your first day not quite to your liking."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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“Well boy, I guess—” “Aaron,” the smith’s prentice interjected, not looking up from his drink.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Though he was no friend, yet he was a fellow prentice, and I had no desire to see him run through.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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