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a person who is being trained for a job
on-the-job trainees Not all of the management trainees will be hired.
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Recent Examples of trainees
The new trainees either join Alianza Comunitaria’s growing network of volunteers or branch out to form their own patrols.
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Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Plans to train Gazans in Egypt were quickly scrapped because of a lack of facilities for trainees.
—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 13 Feb. 2026
Among other things, Homeboy operates an 18-month program where trainees work in all of the nonprofit’s 14 social enterprises, which include food service, dog grooming and electronic recycling.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The potential candidates will include SMTR25 trainees.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
The academy is put into lockdown, as blame begins spreading like wildfire and bonds between trainees are shaken.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
The trainees nonetheless followed much of the usual syllabus, being ferried daily to one or other of the big Palestinian refugee camps under PFLP control for lectures and drills in unarmed combat and very basic weapons handling.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Those expectations color the daily lives of the MZMC trainees, who closely track their intake and weight.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
The city’s public art team plans to send digital feedback surveys for the project to the community at large, police trainees and the University of North Texas at Dallas campus, where the academy is expected to be built on a 20-acre site.
—Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Plans to train Gazans in Egypt were quickly scrapped because of a lack of facilities for trainees.
—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 13 Feb. 2026
Among other things, Homeboy operates an 18-month program where trainees work in all of the nonprofit’s 14 social enterprises, which include food service, dog grooming and electronic recycling.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The potential candidates will include SMTR25 trainees.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
The academy is put into lockdown, as blame begins spreading like wildfire and bonds between trainees are shaken.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
The trainees nonetheless followed much of the usual syllabus, being ferried daily to one or other of the big Palestinian refugee camps under PFLP control for lectures and drills in unarmed combat and very basic weapons handling.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Those expectations color the daily lives of the MZMC trainees, who closely track their intake and weight.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
The city’s public art team plans to send digital feedback surveys for the project to the community at large, police trainees and the University of North Texas at Dallas campus, where the academy is expected to be built on a 20-acre site.
—Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainees
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This case bears close similarities to the trials of James and Jennifer Crumbley, whose then-15-year-old son killed four students in 2021 at his high school in Oxford, Michigan.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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At Florida Atlantic University (FAU), students have developed a guidebook to help identify which kinds of existing vacant properties may be most viable for affordable housing projects, putting adaptive reuse into practice.—
Margi Glavovic Nothard,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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Five transfers, seven high school recruits — and 24 guys coming back for another go-round.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The team has an area-high five players who rank among the top recruits in Dallas-Fort Worth for the Class of 2027.—
Myah Taylor,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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