career person

Example Sentences

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So much of what I do, even as a career person, as a businesswoman, is in reaction to the fact that my mother couldn't make that choice.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2023

“For a Treasury official to call a career person — even just for information — seems to me highly inappropriate, even if it’s just checking in on how it’s going.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2019

You are acting like you are much braver, and it’s exhausting, but I think that’s part of being an early career person when you are in a room where no one looks like you.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

I’m a career person, but not like she was.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2014

That would solve this problem you have now, where the acting career person who takes the job while the nominee's frozen is cautious, hesitant to make decisions.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2011