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prentice

[pren-tis] / ˈprɛn tɪs /










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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

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

“Don’t go messing with it,” the smith’s prentice said.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

What had ever made me imagine that I could impersonate someone else, that I could be anything other than Widge, the orphan, the unwilling prentice of some unsympathetic master in some unbearable trade?

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

So it was that I was permitted to stay on as a prentice with the company, and I was very grateful for it.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood




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