distinguished career

collocation in English

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distinguished
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃt/us
/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃt/
used to describe a respected and admired person, or ...
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career
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/us
/kəˈrɪr/
the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn ...
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(Definition ofdistinguishedandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She enjoyed adistinguishedcareeras physician, biostatistician, and demographer, applying mathematics and statistics to studies in these areas.
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What are your general thoughts after such a long anddistinguishedcareer, and what are your predictions on the future of econometrics?
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Kolakowski has spent the better part of hisdistinguishedcareerinveighing against perfectionist delusions, whether they come in the form of social utopias or heavens on earth.
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It is very appropriate, therefore, that in the year in which he officially retires this collection of essays should appear to mark the climax of adistinguishedcareer.
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Brewer has made it a point more than once in hisdistinguishedcareeras a historian to try to escape, or write beyond, the discourse of establishment politics.
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Celal had adistinguishedcareer.
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It has indeed been a verydistinguishedcareer.
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Nevertheless, we welcome here his successor, who has had a mostdistinguishedcareer.
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He has now embarked on yet another stage of hisdistinguishedcareer.
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He has had adistinguishedcareeras a writer and broadcaster.
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She has had adistinguishedcareerin the health service.
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It is a privilege to participate in a debate initiated by someone with such adistinguishedcareerin the field of international relations.
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He had a verydistinguishedcareerin the services in the last war.
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I have always admired his grasp of the detail of the many subjects with which he has dealt in his long anddistinguishedcareer.
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It was what one would expect from him after such adistinguishedcareerin local government.
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Being aware of hisdistinguishedcareerin another place, we can hardly say that we were surprised by his excellent speech this afternoon.
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We shall look with sentiment at what has been—and will continue to be—a mostdistinguishedcareer.
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We all know that he is destined for adistinguishedcareerin this country.
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He has had adistinguishedcareer, both during the last war and before the last war.
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But since then he has had adistinguishedcareerin local government.
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