career

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 29, 2022 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>career</strong> &#149; \kuh-REER\&nbsp; &#149; <em>verb</em><br /> <p>The verb <em>career</em> means "to go at top speed in a headlong manner."</p> <p>// The tourists gripped their seats and exchanged anxious looks as the bus <em>careered</em> along  the narrow roads.</p> <p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career#h2">See the entry ></a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"The planets coalesced out of the disk of gas and dust leftover from the formation of the Sun, and all the extra bits of debris continued <em>careering</em> around, smashing into the planets and moons." — Lauren Fuge, <em>The Cosmos Magazine</em>, 26 Nov. 2021</p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>In medieval tournaments, jousting required knights to ride at full speed in short bursts, and the noun <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career">career</a></em> (coming from Middle French <em>carriere</em>) was used to refer to such gallops as well as to the courses that knights rode. The related verb came to mean "to go at top speed." The familiar <em>career</em>, referring to one's job, originated from these uses.</p> <br /><br /> </p> </font>