APPRENTICED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

apprenticed

verb

past tense of apprentice

as in employed

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According to the filing, Netflix employed an average of 342 staff in the UK in 2025, up from 263 the year before.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
Harte is no longer employed by the Naugatuck Board of Education, police said.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of employed

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At a science standards adoption in Texas in 2021, an oil and gas industry group recruited volunteers to participate in the process.

— Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Tottenham have recruited six players, all of whom played in the Premier League last season.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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In December, Nvidia bought assets from the AI chip startup for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record and hired Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra and a group of engineers.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
The spike in arrests comes as the agency, infused with billions of dollars last summer by Congress, has also hired 12,000 new deportation officers and investigative agents.

— Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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According to the health department, the patient contracted the virus after spending time outdoors in the city and several locations outside the city.

— Katie Houlis, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
The forecast becomes a construction schedule, and Anthropic's construction schedule is contracted, dated, and public.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of contracted

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George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich in their own corruption cases, and former Department of Justice criminal chief Brent Wible have also been retained.

— Hannah Meisel, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Special touches added by Gail have been retained, including an eccentric serpent mosaic based on a design by Frank Zappa himself.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2026

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