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Recent Examples of career
Noun
Jacas left Illinois as one of the most experienced and productive edge rushers in college football, with 41 career starts and 11 sacks last season. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026 The stable Taurus Sun meets resistance from intense Pluto in Aquarius, pushing tension between daily responsibilities and bigger career demands. Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
And then the plane careered into a big house that was behind the bus and burst into flames. Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 July 2025 From advice on finding the right job to career myths to tips for internal job searches, there is a lot to love about their over 600 episodes. Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for career
Recent Examples of Synonyms for career
Noun
  • Hooper is a 31-year-old free-agent addition, Woerner is not a threat in the passing game and Simon has been a practice-squad player throughout his time in Atlanta.
    Josh Kendall, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • So, nine holes into his pro-am practice round on Thursday, hours before the real competition started, Retief Goosen changed his grip.
    Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Beyond that, two of the highlights of the horse racing calendar take place at Churchill Downs on Friday and Saturday, while the Formula One season resumes after a long hiatus with the Miami Grand Prix.
    The Athletic Live Team, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Police said the suspect had a shotgun, a handgun and knives, and stormed the lobby, running past security barricades as Secret Service agents raced toward him.
    Calvin Woodward, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Outside is a deck with a pool and day beds, connected by sliding doors to an open-plan living space.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Thai workers have demanded that their government address the impact of fuel price increases on their cost-of-living crisis.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The club travels to Portland on Wednesday night for a match against the second-place Thorns, the team that eliminated San Diego from last year’s playoffs.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, be aware that the next six years will bring urges to impulsively travel, and do exciting things to give yourself an adventurous world.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Spreading that message is Bigtree’s lifework.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Four years after Farmer’s death, Clinton reflects on preserving her mentor’s lifework in health care and remembers his tender tenacity.
    Chelsea Clinton, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Performance turnarounds of this nature take time, and there are no tangible shortcuts that can speed up the process.
    Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Forty-seven people died and more than 100 were injured when a speeding Burlington passenger train headed for California slammed into a train bound for Omaha, which had stopped at the Naperville station.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Altman pitched the conversion as critical to securing the vast amount of funding OpenAI needs to fulfill its mission of creating artificial general intelligence — or AGI — that will benefit humanity.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The case centers on Musk’s claim that OpenAI, Altman and Microsoft betrayed OpenAI's original mission as a nonprofit to benefit humanity by forming a for-profit entity in March 2019, 13 months after Musk left the OpenAI board.
    Deepa Seetharaman, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And in 2024, 38 of the 40 edge-rushing prospects had longer arms; the only ones to measure shorter were a pair of twins from UCLA — Gabriel and Grayson Murphy — neither of whom is on an NFL roster.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Policymakers in Illinois must know that rushing to judgment, as these professors suggest, will do immeasurable harm to children across our state for generations.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026

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“Career.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/career. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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