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as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
decided to be an apprentice to an electrician after he graduated
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as in novice
a person who is just starting out in a field of activity
aware that she's only an apprentice in the medical field, she readily defers to her more experienced colleagues
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as in to job
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Recent Examples of apprentice
Anika Burgess
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
But gaining admission became a rigorous, multi-year process that involved apprenticing at an atelier, where her male colleagues regularly targeted her for frat-boy-style pranks.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
Stepheny Price , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Our apprentices are taught, coached and mentored for four weeks with the aim of producing their first stories and photographs for a professional news organization.
—Nicole Avery Nichols, Freep.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Daguerre was a talented artist who had moved to Paris as a teenager to apprentice as a scene painter at the Paris Opera.
—Anika Burgess
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
But gaining admission became a rigorous, multi-year process that involved apprenticing at an atelier, where her male colleagues regularly targeted her for frat-boy-style pranks.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
Verb
Robinson, a third-year electrical apprentice at a Utah technical college, initially fled the scene in the chaos.
—Stepheny Price , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Our apprentices are taught, coached and mentored for four weeks with the aim of producing their first stories and photographs for a professional news organization.
—Nicole Avery Nichols, Freep.com, 13 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for apprentice
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apprentice
Noun
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Darrell Smith, assistant commissioner for school choice and parent empowerment, has said about 55% are in kindergarten through fifth grade, while 23% are in middle school and 22% are in high school.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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An invitation to visit a friend’s family farm in Kenya in 1956 led to an introduction with the archaeologist Louis Leakey, who hired Goodall as an assistant and secretary.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Everyone from novice hikers to camping enthusiasts will find gear worth shopping, and prices start at just $24.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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Mild discomfort, however, is a very common experience of novice exercisers.—
Masha Remskar,
The Conversation,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And will job seekers and employers be willing to adopt an entirely new platform?—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Eli Lilly's contract with Wisconsin ties $100 million in tax credits to job creation and capital investment benchmarks.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In December 2021, the Treasury Department issued more sanctions against Luna and Marroquin, alleging that the Bukele aides negotiated the secret agreement with the MS-13 gang.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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The officials encouraged the report’s lead authors including Calley Means, a top aide of Kennedy’s, to take a different approach for the second report and to engage with farmers and others in the food industry, the lobbyists say.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After a few tries, even beginners can pull cafe-quality espresso shots.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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The true beginner might want to start with Gaia’s Garden and then make their way here.—
Catherine Habgood
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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There’s a reason companies like Adidas, Pepsi, and Ritz Crackers have chosen to partner with Bad Bunny.—
Vanessa Diaz,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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For the 16th year, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will partner with the festival for the Critics’ Award and the first feature award in the cinema category.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
Kyla Mandel,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
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Two-way contracts, which pay half the NBA rookie minimum and do not count toward the salary cap or luxury tax, allow for players to be on their NBA team’s active list for as many as 50 regular-season games with other game action having to come in the G League.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the early window, golf will have to compete with Giants rookie Jaxson Dart’s first career start under center, a regional intrigue that’ll tee up CBS’s coverage of a Ravens-Chiefs banger in the national slot.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Apprentice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprentice. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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