prentice
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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“Don’t go messing with it,” the smith’s prentice said.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
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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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