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profession

[pruh-fesh-uhn] / prəˈfɛʃ ən /




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There is "almost universal support" from his profession for the new measures, he adds.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"Our profession has been too quiet, too passive and too fragmented in the face of abuses by the companies leading the AI revolution," he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Every profession — finance and media and politics and insurance and real estate — has good eggs, bad eggs and stale eggs.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

Nursing is hardly known as a glamorous profession.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

New pretties worked or studied, if they wanted to, but few people got serious about a profession until their middle years.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld




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