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The latest installments, “East” and “West,” focus on artisans engaged at the highest level of their sometimes obscure vocations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Affluent families often paid a skilled artisan to train their children in well-paid, rewarding vocations.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2024

In his 2023 Faith and Law presentation, Simon offered “a brief framework on how Christians could and should engage with the distinctive tensions within vocations in law, policy, and associated disciplines.”

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2024

Mr Emefiele rejected the nomination, but then did go to court to seek an interpretation of the bank's rules forbidding the governor and his deputies from engaging in "vocations", widely seen as including politics.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2023

For the first twenty years of its existence, the Institute offered a high school education and training in various vocations, such as agriculture.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson