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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  • The Dispatch reported that an EMCC Athletics representative would not confirm whether Stephens remains employed by the school in another capacity.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Chicago police employed 1,102 total detectives as of May 2023, and 1,163 as of last week.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of employed
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  • Summary Canadian universities have successfully recruited 64 international scholars, 48 from top American institutions like Harvard and MIT.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Serving as the territory’s secretary of education between 2013 and 2017, overseeing all of its public schools from kindergarten through high school, he was recruited to Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 as a teacher.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruited
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  • Tissot hired a hygienist who confirmed his finding of elevated lead levels in Tissot’s own home.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Cousy sat out the next six seasons before getting hired as head coach of the Cincinnati Royals in 1969.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of hired
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  • One event occurred in 2015 when the mercenary hacker collective Hacking Team used one against a target it had been contracted to infect.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Within the services category, wholesale, retail, and capital markets services activity contracted.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of contracted
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  • West Ham also retained club captain Jarrod Bowen, Taty Castellanos and Konstantinos Mavropanos, while Arne Engels, Manor Solomon, Joel Piroe and Divine Mukasa were their headline summer additions.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Impressively, Fever retained the Dax's single-channel front ABS system by machining custom wheel-speed sensor discs and fabricating mounts for both the ABS module and the factory tip-over sensor.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of retained
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“Apprenticed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprenticed. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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