vocationally
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Then came the jab: Menninger suggested that playing a role—in other words, lying effectively—was something that Jane had been vocationally “trained for.”
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2021
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
This is a very moderate estimate, and the facts would probably show a difference between the earning power of the vocationally trained and the vocationally untrained of at least twenty-five cents a day.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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