careerism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of careerism
Example Sentences
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Children are a responsibility: a limitation on us in an age of careerism and radical individualism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Mazor points out that they were in fact vastly different in temperament, Phil’s pragmatic careerism running counter to Don’s more free-spirited approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
One KGB document revealed that Golitsyn’s “treason” was very damaging to the KGB and was the result of careerism.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
If his dramatic lack of careerism is singular, so too is the motivation behind his work.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
I wanted, however, something more from the new middle-class institution than either the decadent romanticism of the sixties or the careerism of the seventies.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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