career
noun
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework.
have been careering
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present perfect progressiveof career.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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He may have been careering the last month on the unexpended momentum of his recent successes, and really operating on a scale something more than commensurate with the forces of his command.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
By all the gods, he of the laconic garment, the "thousand hill man," would have been careering on a cloud after his "freen" Ossian, with the moon shining through him, within that very hour.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
This morning I have been careering about the stable-yard trying a new habit.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
