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career

[kuh-reer] / kəˈrɪər /


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On the seven-hour ride, my half-century Cage-suffused career passed through my mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

She assured the committee, “I love the United States of America. I consider it the privilege of my career to help preserve its treasures and serve the American people.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Some career experts note that younger workers, who graduated into virtual interviews, may have had fewer opportunities to learn the choreography of a traditional interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"For the better half of seven years, since the Kissing Booth came out, Jacob Elordi has carried my dating career," he laughed.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Though Roosevelt went home to New York and eventually returned to a career in politics, he still kept some ties to the West.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Under the proposal, workers would need to have a total of 20 years in physically demanding jobs throughout their careers or to accumulate 15 points over the years worked in such a job.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Before joining the Journal, Jasmine was an editorial fellow at Fortune, covering careers and consumer habits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Education Secretary Lucy Powell argued the new vocational GCSEs would give young people a "stronger connection" to careers, while the prime minister said it was a change from a "one size fits all" education system.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Evan said there were "so many different companies, especially around Newport" offering careers after leaving school.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

He could figure out what people who went into this looking for careers as comic book artists actually did.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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 vehicle careered off the road and rolled down the mountainside before coming to rest in a field below.

From BBC ● May 20, 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

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

A bus careered past and sprayed us with a fountain of rust-brown puddle water, drenching us.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

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

A few moments later, Grant Hanley played an agricultural hoof down the park, the ball careering out of play with no Scotsman in sight.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 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

Almost before Min had finished speaking, he was flying down the road with the cart careering crazily before him.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park




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