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apprenticed

verb

past tense of apprentice

as in employed

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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

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Environmental regulators recruited 14 universities, nonprofits, aquariums and laboratories to focus on different pieces of the project, from genetic research and reef monitoring to coral breeding and outplanting.

— Nicolás Rivero, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
But to a teenager being recruited by a fleet of big-name programs, the flash mattered more than the function.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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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

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