trainee

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One of the first things you do as a Mobil Oil trainee is you learn how to drive the tractor, turn it on, pull the lever.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The trainee nurse and her Uber driver husband already have three children, aged 10, eight and six, and she worries about having more.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

If I say to a trainee, “You’re flinching,” that puts it in his head.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

But a week ago, a trainee paramedic spoke to the BBC about how she is now looking for work abroad because of a recruitment freeze in Wales.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Cassiodorus, writing in the 6th century in southern Italy for the guidance of trainee scribes, included punctuation in his Institutions Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum, recommending “clear pausing in well-regulated delivery”.

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