profession
Example Sentences
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And after the Milan-Cortina Games ends, a well-funded professional league, the Rock League, will launch with six teams, further accelerating the sport’s evolution from hobby to profession.
From Los Angeles Times
“The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple…please, I’m begging you the media to honor your profession and report with some sense of compassion and professionalism.”
She admitted the allegations before the panel and accepted her behaviour amounted to conduct which may bring the profession into disrepute.
From BBC
Going forward, geologists, engineers and economists will be needed, especially as Greenland's traditional livelihoods of hunting and fishing are expected to gradually die out as professions.
From Barron's
He whipped it around human subjects and through vast buildings, filming shorts and commercials, which prepared him for the toughest test in his profession: keeping up with live sporting events.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
