profession
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Doctors and others in the medical profession say, for them, it's the most realistic medical drama yet - which is why they love it.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Low-level clerks are familiar figures in literature, perhaps because many of the authors of such works, including Saramago, had once been of the same profession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
After joking that his daughter didn’t go into a profession that most Indian immigrant parents wish for their children, he explained that her full name — Nithya Varsha — means “forever monsoon” in Sanskrit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The time and money it takes to gain a bar-exam-eligible legal education would decrease, and the legal profession would become more accessible to all students, particularly nontraditional students and those of limited financial means.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Della Porta was a Neapolitan nobleman who had made a profession out of occult learning.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Some people he knows went into blue-collar professions, for example, and “it’s worked out great.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Law schools could use their antitrust curricula as a secret screening device to steer cynics and chiselers who accidently get through the door toward alternative professions such as telemarketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It’s interesting to look back prior to 1960, 1950, and just see the professions and the things that justices did prior to being on the court.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Villarreal: Not to compare the two professions, but does it make you see the work you do as an actor a form of public service?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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