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apprentice

[uh-pren-tis] / əˈprɛn tɪs /


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When she was 18, she landed a job as an apprentice film librarian at the Sandler Film Library in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Montazeri went on to apprentice for two of Iran’s most important contemporary artists—mirrored mosaic maker Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and modernist sculptor Parviz Tanavoli.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

According to a biography of Woods published in 1887, he attended school until about the age of 10, learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic, before leaving to apprentice in blacksmithing and machining.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

So he swapped a Delhi suburb for a village in Germany's Black Forest region, where he's a baker's apprentice.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

She’s also an apprentice grant writer for “a handful” of nonprofits, and she’s the VP of her university’s Pride organization.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone




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