How to Use trainee in a Sentence
trainee
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Keonho spent three years as a trainee.
—Billboard Brasil, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
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He was caught sleeping on the job while a trainee flew the plane.
—Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2017
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There were trainees at the guard posts around the perimeter of the base.
—TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
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Some of the trainees flounder; some turn out to have lied about their age.
—The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
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That’s when the third-year trainee and co-workers went to work — fast.
—Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2018
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The image shows more than two dozen trainees with their arms raised and faces blurred.
—Anthony Izaguirre, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2019
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Most trainees never make it to the finish line.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
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And who are the people training the trainees?
—Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Teacher trainees complain they are owed two months of back pay.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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New trainees have been sent through a fast-track course that has cut training time in half.
—Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
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That a lot of young conscripts, young trainees are being sent out there.
—Cnn Staff, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
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And as a first time Marathon trainee, those long run miles begin to add up.
—Jamie Prokell, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
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By the end of the program, trainees get help to launch companies.
—Kate Okorie, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
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Today, Kate is set to meet the trainees to check in on their journeys.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Mar. 2019
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The Jamey Thomas trainee drops in class after a rough trip last time out.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
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In spite of this being such a complex case, a trainee was assigned to the call.
—Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
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Nine trainees joined the program, and all nine completed it.
—Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 9 June 2026
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Tzuyu moved away from home as a young teen to live and train in Seoul as a K-pop trainee.
—Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
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John Strickler was a trainee at a bank after a stint with the Marines.
—Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 12 Jan. 2026
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The faces of the trainees and several other people have been blurred out.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
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According to Lott, the trainee was in his third week of training.
—Gregory Lemos, CNN, 6 May 2021
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Simon will pose as a new trainee named Alfonso.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Metro allowed the trainee to retake the test that same day.
—Justin George, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
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Stiles believes Coltrane is linked to the death of his detective trainee.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 15 May 2026
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The trainees will work across a range of different departments on the show.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 1 May 2026
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The trainee role is the one that quietly never gets posted.
—Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
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Dylan and Jeff didn’t care about being trainees and left to form a band with Leo.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
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The program went from four or five trainees a year to 20 in 2025.
—Brendan Hellweg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2026
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Still, any gun training class will have to land on some key answers to thorny questions that will crop up from trainees.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
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As a trainee, the judgments continued.
—Paula Ferrada, Forbes.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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