How to Use occupational in a Sentence

occupational

adjective
Definition of occupationalnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jake’s made an occupational fetish of going where the danger is.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Show more Carmel Gat, a 39-year-old occupational therapist, being held hostage in Gaza.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The Observer reviewed data for the 10 most unionized states in the nation, and found that all but one of them had lower occupational death rates than North Carolina.
    — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
  • An occupational therapist came to his room five days after the amputation to see if Drew Kennison was up to the task.
    — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • One day, my occupational therapist, Marnie Deardorff, asked me a question that almost brought tears of relief to my eyes.
    — Dan Koeppel, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Physicians and physical and occupational therapists teach them to read Braille, use a white cane and explore the world with their other senses.
    — Brittany Truong, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Marital and occupational status are also tracked in the study, as well as women’s roles as leaders.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Requires the governor fill a vacancy on certain occupational boards within 90 days and the board to appoint a member if the governor does not.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • In 2021, the committee voted in favor of the Jynneos vaccine for people with occupational risks of virus exposure.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The case highlights a nationwide problem with occupational licensing boards, which already control more than one-fourth of all U.S. jobs.
    — Daryl James, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2024
  • State occupational health and safety rules still require workers who have been exposed to the coronavirus to wear masks at their worksite for 10 days after their exposure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • From the perspective of apparent order, the problem of trucking safety—the job ranks eighth on the list of occupational fatality rates—is driver fatigue.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • There will be no occupational licensing in the virtual world.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Jaime was a performing dancer who hoped to become an occupational therapist and mother.
    — Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The department has not released data on occupational deaths for 2023.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The department has not released data on occupational deaths for 2023.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Al has spoken out and honored Nick's longtime occupational therapist, Lori Rothman, on the Today show.
    — Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Twichel, who is also an occupational therapist, pivoted to running the business full-time in 2020.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • Thanks to better diagnoses and more rigorous public health and occupational safety standards, the disease in its extreme form is rare.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But there was one area of the hospital where physical and occupational therapists weren’t involved in patient care: the maternity ward.
    — Christine Henneberg, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Plus, at a certain point, an individual is not likely to judge their danger accurately; a classic sign of occupational heatstroke is disorientation.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024

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