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vocational

[voh-key-shuh-nl] / voʊˈkeɪ ʃə nl /




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She also sits down with Phillipson to chat about vocational courses and remarks of her love for monarch Richard III.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

That is how Owen Chance, a senior at Lathrop High School in Lathrop, Mo., got into a regional vocational program for high-school students, learning to be a pipe fitter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Recipients of these benefits in turn regularly have their finances reevaluated, and are also intermittently examined by medical and vocational experts, to determine whether their payments will continue.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

At a vocational institute north of the capital Beirut, displaced mother Nasima Ismail signed up her children for services despite a lack of resources as the war interrupts education for hundreds of thousands of students.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Performing Arts, the write-up said, was an academic, as opposed to a vocational, public school that trained students wishing to pursue a career in theater, music, and dance.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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