career
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It is the second time in his career that Kubasik has been removed from a senior executive role after allegations about his conduct with an employee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I kinda sorta put my acting career on hold the other day. It’s been something I’ve been petrified to do for years,” Krumholtz said in a post on Threads, per Deadline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Captaining from mid-off was a tactic used by Root's predecessor Stokes and former skipper Michael Vaughan – another influential figure in Root's career, having come through the same Sheffield club.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Foster explained his career pivot in Tuesday’s episode of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” TV show, a documentary-style series that tracks an NFL team’s training camp in real-time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Though Dorothy Vaughan would continue her career at Langley, her job as the manager of West Computing was over.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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A defense of yelling in restaurants: It’s a forbidden behavior in today’s restaurants—but Amanda Albee spoke to chefs who say it massively improved their careers.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Last month, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he wanted to ensure teenagers had technical routes into careers that could rival the path of a university degree.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Earlier in our careers, we chose traditional IRAs because the tax deduction made the most sense at the time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
His decision was the clearest example of the seismic shift that is permanently altering the shape of football careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
But that is only the latest in what has been an extraordinary string of experiences and careers.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
Thousands of houses have been damaged or destroyed as fast-running water careered down streets, carrying cars, while highways were blocked with debris and electricity cut off.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
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
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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
The club doesn’t intend to keep careering ahead this way forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
With this show, the director “takes an established musical by the scruff of the neck and sends it careering into the modern day,” Wolf added.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
People stopped to watch or scuttled out of his careering way.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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