Example Sentences

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Rustin realized that we needed to educate and prepare people socially, emotionally, and vocationally for the latter rather than the former, such that Black people would “keep up” with the computer.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2020

There’s even a Plain English Campaign that does its nut, year-round and vocationally, about examples of baffling officialese, pompous lawyer-speak and soul-shrivelling business jargon.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2017

To cater to all the new students, colleges keep expanding and adding courses, many of them vocationally inclined.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015

O.C.D. is often socially, emotionally and vocationally crippling.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014

The supervision of voluntary services should be in the hands of one vocationally trained for the purpose.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry