vocation
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And business is a real vocation for a lot of people.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
"I'm lucky I have a partner that has helped me battle these demons, but I never thought a vocation - something I love - would push me to this."
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
The author quotes, perhaps more than is strictly necessary, from the letters he’s issued to his clients and devotes a pair of chapters to climate change, a concern that has become his late-life vocation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The self-confessed teenage nerd was dedicated to weird science as a vocation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
“What was it? Was it a boy? Was it a vocation? Or was it a whole life?”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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