career
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Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The 26-year-old college program manager from India wanted to jump-start her career after a breakup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
People in their 30s and early 40s tend to generate steadily rising income if they’re advancing in their career.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
"I've got to say it was probably the busiest day of my whole career," Oberto told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
I kept telling myself that all I had to do was point out that there was no place in Joey’s career, my organization or our driveway for the likes of him.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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Both were early in their careers at the time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
I’d planned to attend the gathering as an observer, a journalist who covers careers and management, comfortable that my notebook and pen separated me from the others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is filled with extraordinarily talented people whose careers depend on being right, evenly matched against each other.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Both have beautiful wives with impressive careers of their own.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
“This is the future, Madrina. We’re thinking about our careers and goals and breaking barriers. And yes, Marisol, we're thinking about making money!”
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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The vehicle careered off the road and rolled down the mountainside before coming to rest in a field below.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
In the latest incident in Leipzig, a Volkswagen Taigo car careered from a major square in the old town down a busy pedestrian zone, travelling hundreds of metres.
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
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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
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
After its path is further changed by gravitational encounters with Jupiter or Saturn, it tends to find itself, once every century or so, careering toward the inner solar system.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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