prentice
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Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Though he was no friend, yet he was a fellow prentice, and I had no desire to see him run through.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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"By the by, you two haven't met, have you? Widge, this is Chris Beeston. Not so long ago he was a lowly prentice like us."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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I was still but a prentice in the art, but slowly and painfully I was learning.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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The study included 405 pregnant individuals receiving care at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago between 2020 and 2024.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Prosecutor Alex Prentice KC also told the hearing there were further witnesses who have died since the incident.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
On Wednesday, Prentice had called his alleged wrongdoing "an aberration" and vowed a thorough and transparent investigation, while insisting it should not be used "to cast aspersions" on other academics from ethnic minority backgrounds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news,” said Cambridge University Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She made such a fuss that Mrs. Prentice, the driver, ordered Jesse off the bus, and he had to walk the three miles home.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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