career
noun
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework.
was careering
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past progressiveof career.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was careering around on the high ground of Lysychansk, across the river from Sievierodonetsk, the site of the fiercest fighting in Ukraine’s East.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
He spent 14 years at Williams Sonoma, and left when he wasn’t chosen to be its C.E.O., to take over a company that was careering toward bankruptcy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
Sports fans went wild for Tyson when he was precision engineering, but it seemed like every neck in the world was craning for a view when he was careering off the tracks.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2015
They've seen the demise of Ceefax – probably the most recent of all the old media, a brand spanking new old medium, hardly conceived before it was careering towards obsolescence.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2012
“It was no more exhausting careering after Jasper on the rocks than it was careering after driftwood on the beach,” I answered.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
