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vocation

[voh-key-shuhn] / voʊˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Performing, Midler adds, “isn’t a job with him — it’s a vocation, a calling.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

For Crouse, the musical is about many things: music itself, of course, but also vocation, integrity and faith: “There was a lot for them to get their teeth into in terms of a story.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

The moment feels like Ms. Romvari’s depiction of her own origin story as a filmmaker, and suggests how tightly intertwined her brother’s struggles are with the roots of her vocation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

And business is a real vocation for a lot of people.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

Blanca led the idle life that was her true vocation, while her husband gave himself to those small pleasures that only money can buy and that he had denied himself for such a long time.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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