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
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
But to Falconer I was apparently no more than an unskilled and incompetent prentice, not fit to converse with or share a room with.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
While they were still grousing, the door opened and the smith’s prentice came in, boyish and broad- shouldered with the smell of coalsmoke in his hair.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
An old weatherworker of the Vale, seeking to win the boy as prentice, had taught him several charms.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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