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career

[kuh-reer] / kəˈrɪər /


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Following the end of his playing career, he also acquired a stake Las Vegas Raiders, while also becoming part of the ownership group of the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Mr. Woodward has built a career of global renown by reporting stories for which he’s promised anonymity to many of those who talked to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

In a way, Everett’s culinary career has come full circle, just as his best track races did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Walsh started his career as a professional builder before rising to fame alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock on the BBC's Ground Force from 1997 to 2005.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

When our entire fortune was lost to the surging waters of the Bistrifa—a shipload of fabric and ready-made clothes gone in an instant—he returned to his former career.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

By hosting students for work-based learning opportunities, businesses boost their local communities, streamline their own talent recruitment and ensure students are trained for high-demand careers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

The 12th in an occasional series of profiles on Southern California athletes who have flourished in their post-playing careers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

For example, Pennsylvania created programs to educate high-schoolers about municipal careers, preparing them for roles in state and local government.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Her dedication to flying in her teens wasn’t an anomaly, but part of a growing wave of young people getting an early start in their pilot careers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

We filled out cards with all kinds of information about our first and second choice of careers.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

A deluge of material careered towards northern Nepalese towns, including areas popular with mountaineering tourists and pilgrims.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Their running total of transfer fees long since careered past the £25m mark.

From BBC ● Aug. 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

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

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

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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