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internship

[in-turn-ship] / ˈɪn tɜrnˌʃɪp /
NOUN
teaching fellowship
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Angie Nixon’s political career started with an internship for a member of city council.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026

She had to take on a three-month unpaid internship in a classroom and several thousand dollars in fees for her certification.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

That’s three to four years of coursework and clinical practice, followed by a mandatory one-year full-time internship.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

After his sophomore year, Aschenbrenner went to Oxford for a summer internship at the Future of Humanity Institute, which was affiliated with EA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

He had had an unpaid internship at a small architecture firm in Cambridge, where he’d run errands at Charrette for the designers, been sent to photograph nearby sites, lettered a few drawings.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The compensation that elite financial firms are dangling for 10-week summer internships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Always say you’re a junior” is the unofficial motto of students applying for top-flight financial internships, a former Arrowstreet Capital intern told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I want to dramatically expand paid internships, apprenticeships and partnerships with employers and organized labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Phan said it blocks students from paid internships, research and teaching assistant jobs and student government posts that include stipends — positions she called “vital to advancing their future careers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

They talked about things that were foreign to me, like summer internships and historically black colleges.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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