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career

[kuh-reer] / kəˈrɪər /


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Hansen, who joined the CSA in 2009 following his career as a fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, will be the first non-American to fly around the Moon.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Chisora has been through the harder fights and more longevity in his career, but then again Wilder isn't coming off the best results.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

His artistic career began while studying art on a football scholarship at USC, where he met and was mentored by Hungarian painter Francis de Erdely.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The rest of his career was largely devoted to complicating and enriching the portrait, transforming himself, as his best biographer, James Gindin, observed, from a satirist into a practitioner of the “novel of compassion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He’d spent most of his career, first at Drexel Burnham and then at AIG FP, not as a bond trader but working in the back office.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis