prentice
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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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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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To such a man, I would not be a runaway prentice but an uncollected debt.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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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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At the far end of the bar, the smith’s prentice finally retrieved his iron rod from under the table and stretched to his full height.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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