profession
Example Sentences
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The Butcher — we call him that because that was his profession before retiring after surviving Stage 4 colon cancer 15 years ago — had the best words of comfort.
From Los Angeles Times
“Not mean. More trickster kine. In ancient Hawai‘i, stealing was one honorable profession.
From Literature
I retired from that career in January 2000 and then entered another profession.
From MarketWatch
Workers don’t need to be rescued from their professions; they need room to adapt within them.
The question of whether she wanted to stick with this profession came up from time to time as she was getting older.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
