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career

[kuh-reer] / kəˈrɪər /


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But her middle daughter had her first child when she was 39, waiting like many people with college degrees to establish a career before starting a family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Jazzy is rooted in the Dublin club scene, starting her career as part of a group called Powerful Creative Minds in the city.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Born Sept. 2, 1951, in Chicago, Gray grew up in Miami Beach before making his way out west to pursue a career in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Bamford, on the other hand, has made a career out of being so deeply in touch with her mind and self that it would frighten the average neurotypical viewer if it weren’t so damn funny.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Okay, so maybe family therapist was out as a future career option for Jonah.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The initiative will also offer mentorship and hands-on exposure to careers in stagecraft, design and production for Y members from ages 16 to 24, and talk-backs connecting live theater to the Y’s civic leadership programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Today most Mizrahim have moved into the middle class with university educations and professional careers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Colleges raced to expand their programs as students flocked to a field that promised lucrative careers in tech.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

After talking to her school careers adviser, she is considering studying psychology.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

At Permian the priority was football, which beyond the powerful memories and the wonderful joy it created year after year for the town of Odessa, rarely led to scholarships or careers.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Two systems that could have slowed an Amazon Air flight that crashed in Miami over the weekend weren’t deployed before the plane careered off a runway and crashed into nearby vehicles, investigators said late Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Their running total of transfer fees long since careered past the £25m mark.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The vehicle careered off the road and rolled down the mountainside before coming to rest in a field below.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

The driver was arrested after the vehicle careered from a main square down a major city centre street, close to historic sites.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Across the foaming water, to and fro, the boat careered like a ball of tumbleweed blown on the autumn plains, but intact still.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The accident, which saw the picture-postcard 19th-century Gloria tramway hurtle into a building after careering off the rails, shocked the Portuguese capital, laying bare fears over the safety of the popular yet ageing tourist attraction.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

The club doesn’t intend to keep careering ahead this way forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2025

Only after that point could turmoil begin: It was shattered by an impact and shifted outward to the asteroid belt, where subsequent impacts would have formed the Athor family and sent some careering toward Earth.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 16, 2024

With this show, the director “takes an established musical by the scruff of the neck and sends it careering into the modern day,” Wolf added.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

After its path is further changed by gravitational encounters with Jupiter or Saturn, it tends to find itself, once every century or so, careering toward the inner solar system.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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