career
noun
an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Typically, the returning troops will career from euphoria to a baffled recognition that time has not stood still in their absence: children have grown, spouses have become more independent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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