apprentice
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She turned it down and went to work as an apprentice at a law firm instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
If you are under 19, or if you are 19 or older but in the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be paid at least the apprentice rate, external of £8 per hour.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I remember going home after training, having been an apprentice, and telling my friends how close I had been to Kevin Keegan," Fairclough told BBC Radio Merseyside.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The 19-year-old college student compares herself to an apprentice learning from a master artisan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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 glassmakers on the island face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of apprentices and competition from counterfeits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
A spokesperson said apprentices at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust were inadvertently underpaid between 2019 and 2023.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
For 18 to 20 year olds the rate is £10.85, and for under 18s and apprentices it is £8.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Deliver us some information and you can be off. We're after two runaway apprentices."
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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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 England, Reinhold got a teaching job in the north, leaving George in London in 1767, apprenticed to a merchant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Why couldn’t I have apprenticed with someone like him, instead of Dr. Lange?
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
Chiarello started apprenticing in restaurants at only 14 and then attended the Culinary Institute of America in New York, where he graduated in 1982 and went on to study and work in restaurants in Florida.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
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
At my parents for dying and my brother for apprenticing himself to a Martial.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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