career
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He combined that career with acting in 1981, when he started appearing in films.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
What role did luck play in your career?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Maresca, meanwhile, was just beginning his career in management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Last year, when Ohtani was returning from a second career Tommy John surgery, the Dodgers eased him into pitching slowly, starting with one inning and then adding an inning each appearance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
When our entire fortune was lost to the surging waters of the Bistrifa—a shipload of fabric and ready-made clothes gone in an instant—he returned to his former career.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
They played together for seven years at club level and shared the pitch 262 times for club and country, and their careers have remained closely intertwined since.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The contraction isn’t just reaching workers at the end of long careers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The careers of Tang and Yang show that China’s AI push is nothing sudden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The late 1990s was littered with the careers of people who had called the stock-market bubble, but too early.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Nothing in either of my two careers as a black man in America had served to give me any idealistic tendencies.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
In the latest incident in Leipzig, a Volkswagen Taigo car careered from a major square in the old town down a busy pedestrian zone, travelling hundreds of metres.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
"The jury and the organisers have decided to stop the race," they said as Austria's Nina Ortlieb and Marte Monsen of Norway had also careered off-piste.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Having gone undefeated in the opening 16 league matches, Celtic careered into troubled waters with some stodgy performances preceding successive defeats by Kilmarnock and Hearts this month.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
Scotland were expecting some brutality from the Tongan bruisers in Nice and they were probably steeled for some other stuff - some stuff that careered over the line between acceptable physicality and reckless ferocity.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023
There was a loud splintering of shafts as the horse careered onwards, trailing in its wake reins, tracers and shattered timber.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
John Lewis dropped its Christmas advert before Bonfire Night, John Cena's final opponent is due to be revealed and the Ashes hype train is careering down the tracks.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
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
People stopped to watch or scuttled out of his careering way.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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