How to Use occupational in a Sentence

occupational

adjective
  • The name was used for a person who laid tiles or bricks and often as an occupational name for a housebuilder.
    — Vicky Yip, Parents, 1 July 2024
  • Jake’s made an occupational fetish of going where the danger is.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Once red-hot for boys, this occupational last name has also become a favorite for girls.
    — Lisa Milbrand, Parents, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Why would sharp-as-nails med school grads opt toward a presumably dead-end occupational route?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Then one day, his occupational therapist looked at him, told him to sit down and called an ambulance.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Job boundaries and occupational boundaries are likely to change in big ways.
    — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Research shows that home health care workers have some of the highest rates of occupational injury in the country.
    — Andrea Flynn, STAT, 7 July 2023
  • There was a two-part tax on sales, one which functioned like a sales tax and another more akin to an occupational tax for licensed dealers.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • However, doctors and I wrote off the pain as an occupational strain.
    — Health, 20 May 2025
  • And while the gas is well known for its short-term risks in occupational settings, less is known about the consequences of long-term exposure.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Forty-six years later, more and more occupational minorities are breaking through the glass ceiling.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 July 2024
  • Your healthcare provider or occupational therapist should instruct you on how and when to perform these techniques at home.
    — Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • While no single factor drives the wage gap, occupational segregation accounts for a large part of it.
    — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Paz said this means occupational health and safety standards are rarely in place to protect people - mostly women - who are paid to do that work.
    — Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Marital and occupational status are also tracked in the study, as well as women’s roles as leaders.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Since then, the term spread from the occupational lingo of police and journalists into the public sphere.
    — Mary Angela Bock, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The workers' campaign to unionize has been driven in part by occupational safety and health concerns.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Her occupational therapists helped her practice tasks like holding a pencil and spelling her name.
    — Victoria Mejicanos, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There will be no occupational licensing in the virtual world.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Collars can accent the face in portraits as well as denote occupational class, blue collar versus white collar.
    — Kent Dunlap, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Jaime was a performing dancer who hoped to become an occupational therapist and mother.
    — Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Faculty members may decide that their devotion to the pursuit of knowledge may not be worth the occupational risk.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2025
  • One example was a digital occupational safety and health platform that didn’t yield a big enough drop in incidents.
    — Alice Williams, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Your occupational therapist role-plays how to make small talk with a hair stylist, because your brain isn’t quick enough to respond to normal conversation.
    — Anne Lagamayo, Longreads, 11 May 2023
  • The elevator’s movement makes a game of chance out of the myth of occupational and social mobility.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Six-year-old Cyrus attended occupational, physical, and/or speech therapy five or six nights a week for years.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
  • One of Lilly’s occupational therapists quit halfway through the year.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Eager for results and open to new solutions, Nute reached out to the company and then an occupational therapist to learn more.
    — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The Netherlands has reduced old-age poverty to less than 3% through a universal pension paired with strong occupational plans.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • Miller said voters could choose to increase the local occupational tax, which has been at the same level for 50 years, but many council members view that as a non-starter.
    — The Courier-Journal, 19 Apr. 2024

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