apprentice

At Yorkshire-based manufacturing company Fives, most apprentices are at lower levels and study at nearby Keighley College, but there is one degree apprentice.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The term “masterpiece” originally referred to the work produced by an apprentice to prove that he was entitled to become a master.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The 19-year-old college student compares herself to an apprentice learning from a master artisan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Christine is only slightly more experienced, no longer an atelier apprentice, but is just beginning to prove herself, constructing her first garment entirely on her own.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

An insignificant stonecutter’s apprentice would get no farther than the first guard.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

U.K. companies hired 8% more apprentices in 2025, while hiring of college graduates contracted by 8%, according to a survey in 2025 by the Institute of Student Employers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

At accounting firm Grant Thornton, just 10% of U.K. trainee intakes were apprentices in 2010.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Businesses including PricewaterhouseCoopers and law firm Freshfields are bringing in more apprentices, saying it helps them tap a wider pool of candidates who can develop skills over a longer period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

A DWP spokeswoman said the government was introducing a bursary for apprentices whose families receive Universal Credit.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Andrew Brown’s print shop smelled of ink and grease and the sweat of muscular apprentices carrying trays of lead type from the composing table to the printing press.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

"After his studies in London, he was apprenticed to other stonemasons to help in the construction of the Houses of Parliament," Simmons said.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In England, Reinhold got a teaching job in the north, leaving George in London in 1767, apprenticed to a merchant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Samuel Slater, born in 1768 into a farming family in Derbyshire, England, was apprenticed at age 14 to the owner of a cotton mill that was using the novel Arkwright water frame.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Instead of attending a traditional law school, Kardashian apprenticed with attorneys for six years under California’s Law Office Study Program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

“That boy is apprenticed here, isn’t he?” she asked.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Some say she has been apprenticing as a cobbler in the Italian countryside; others, that she’s formed an ice cave—and won the trust of indigenous penguin tribes—in Antarctica.

From Slate ● May 25, 2024

Chiarello started apprenticing in restaurants at only 14 and then attended the Culinary Institute of America in New York, where he graduated in 1982 and went on to study and work in restaurants in Florida.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

By the next year, she was studying at Tokyo University of the Arts and apprenticing at Handa Kyuseido, a relative newcomer in the multigenerational-family conservator field.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Nervously avoiding Heqet’s puzzled gaze, he added, “Gebu cares nothing for goldworking. He sees no value in apprenticing me to Rekh.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw