career girl
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Or maybe he was a playboy, and she was a self-respecting career girl.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
After her manuscript failed to find a publisher, my mother picked up the pieces, donned her Manhattan career girl suits, and went back to a job editing academic journals.
From Slate ● May 6, 2021
She’s “a career girl and a survivalist,” on the road so much she can’t even get a dog.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
Mary Tyler Moore After playing a kooky wife to Dick Van Dyke in his show, in 1970 Moore bloomed into American TV’s favourite single career girl.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2017
"And then a little bit later you have a woman on a commuter train, a sort of career girl."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2015
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