apprenticed

verb

past tense of apprentice
as in employed

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  1. employed
  2. recruited
  3. hired
  4. contracted
  5. retained
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  • Another study earlier this year also highlighted West Virginia’s Ascend program among the best for remote workers employed with companies outside the state.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
  • In August 2021, Rodriguez began working for Saavedra, whose company provided private security services for clients and often employed active deputies and other law enforcement officers.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 20 July 2026
Definition of employed
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  • He was recruited at great cost to win this World Cup, and because of his tactical nous in knockout football.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • The trippy, mind-bending sci-fi thriller stars Matthew McConaughey as a former NASA pilot recruited for a mission to find a potential new world for mankind when Earth becomes unlivable.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Definition of recruited
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  • That need has helped to push the Nats to join the Miami Marlins, who started to employ the tactic in the majors late last season, and the Rockies, who hired the Marlins’ assistant pitching coach this winter.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Presley told the Board of Managers that over the last few months, the district has hired 142 uncertified teachers.
    — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026
Definition of hired
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  • Ebola is rare, but highly contagious and can be contracted via bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • Captain Ronda Montgomery, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, declined to say which agency has been contracted to investigate Abarca’s allegations.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Definition of contracted
Verb
  • This means that even atomic versions of oxygen and nitrogen would be retained.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
  • His family has retained a lawyer and sued the Brentwood Police Department, accusing it of killing her and injuring her head during the arrest.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
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