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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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Marine Band, in which his father performed on trombone, as an apprentice.

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

"Does it really sound like the president of the United States to run a televised program for who would be his next apprentice?"

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

He said his dad was "very career-orientated", who started out as an apprentice in Cwmbran before rising through the ranks to become a mining engineer, working across Scotland, the North East, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

So when this tall good-looking young man appeared with apprentice papers from a good firm in Berlin, Father hired him without hesitation.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

They are responsible for ensuring apprentices work with experienced staff and receive time away from their job to complete their studying.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

We look to be back in the realms of a two-horse race and the two horses have experienced jockeys now, not two Old Firm apprentices like Russell Martin and Wilfried Nancy.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Generations before aspiring communicators began attending journalism schools, and centuries before some of them skipped formal training altogether and simply declared themselves online influencers, most future news professionals launched their careers as indentured apprentices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Overall, Bloomberg said its latest spending will support these sorts of efforts in half a dozen states, including classroom renovations and paid work stipends for student apprentices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Maria arranged flowers and fetched painting supplies for Marrel and his apprentices.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

"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

John Van Nostrand Dorr was born in 1872, long before the Model T. He grew up in New Jersey, where he apprenticed under Thomas Edison.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 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

Instead of attending a traditional law school, Kardashian apprenticed with attorneys for six years under California’s Law Office Study Program.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2025

He was safely apprenticed and destined to become as fine a goldsmith as teaching could make him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

Nervously avoiding Heqet’s puzzled gaze, he added, “Gebu cares nothing for goldworking. He sees no value in apprenticing me to Rekh.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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