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career

[kuh-reer] / kəˈrɪər /


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Blazy began his career at Maison Margiela in 2011, before moving to Celine and then Calvin Klein in New York, where he worked under Belgian designer Raf Simons until they were both sacked in 2018.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“People are not idiots,” said Beth Steinberg, a veteran human-resources executive who has spent much of her career at technology companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A graduate of the College of New Jersey, he started his career in newspapers at the Courier-Post in Camden, N.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Jack Wilshere's footballing career has gone full circle.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

It would have been a suitable career for her, considering her penchant for intrigue, politics, and travel.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Next came the Daytime Emmy-winning TV series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” which ran from 1986 through 1990 and helped kick-start the careers of now well-known stars including Phil Hartman, Laurence Fishburne and S. Epatha Merkerson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some young adults’ experiences in the job market or the workplace have inspired them to transform their careers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

But for all the history between them, the launch felt more like two veterans in the closing stages of long, turbulent careers taking stock of how far they had both come.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Meanwhile, demand for female professionals is rising, while some women are changing careers to take up trades which they see as more AI-proof than their desk jobs.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

These men and women were college educated and had careers as lawyers, doctors, journalists, businesspeople, and politicians.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Two systems that could have slowed an Amazon Air flight that crashed in Miami over the weekend weren’t deployed before the plane careered off a runway and crashed into nearby vehicles, investigators said late Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The driver was arrested after the vehicle careered from a main square down a major city centre street, close to historic sites.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

"The jury and the organisers have decided to stop the race," they said as Austria's Nina Ortlieb and Marte Monsen of Norway had also careered off-piste.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

It comes after an inquest found the deaths of four teenage boys could have been avoided when their car careered off a road during a camping trip in Wales last year.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

Joaquin leaned his body to the left as he careered down the hill toward the arts center.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

Being closer, or watching from the air, doesn’t diminish the awe one feels watching the waves, and the bodies within them, careering toward the Portuguese beach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

The accident, which saw the picture-postcard 19th-century Gloria tramway hurtle into a building after careering off the rails, shocked the Portuguese capital, laying bare fears over the safety of the popular yet ageing tourist attraction.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Only after that point could turmoil begin: It was shattered by an impact and shifted outward to the asteroid belt, where subsequent impacts would have formed the Athor family and sent some careering toward Earth.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 16, 2024

Early in the Premier League game between Sheffield United and Brighton last month, the Sheffield United defender Mason Holgate went careering into Kaoru Mitoma, Brighton’s dazzling winger.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

“It was no more exhausting careering after Jasper on the rocks than it was careering after driftwood on the beach,” I answered.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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