profession
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Ippolito has maintained that casual can-do attitude about the profession, taking classes and working with acting coaches along the way, but “The Offer” and “I Play Rocky” have become calling cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Villareal manages workers in a shortstaffed, tough profession where wages have simply not kept up with the cost of living.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
"Over the past 10 to 12 years, attitudes have changed and many women have chosen to enter the culinary profession," said Ecole Ducasse's Aabhas Jain.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Mr. Kozinski certainly possesses impressive legal acumen by nature of his profession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“He felt that this was the greatest opportunity ever offered to his profession in this country, and he could not make them appreciate it,” she said.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
She says those working in caring professions such as medicine, nursing and teaching have a particular tendency towards this.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
A college degree may lead to greater lifetime earnings in some professions, but what about the rest of the wealth picture?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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
It is striking, for instance, how many different professions and disciplines have a word to describe the particular gift of reading deeply into the narrowest slivers of experience.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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