career vs stampede

career

verb
  • To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. 

adj
  • Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”) 

noun
  • General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it. 

  • One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession. 

  • A jouster's path during a joust. 

  • The flight of a hawk. 

stampede

verb
  • To move rapidly in a mass. 

  • To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies. 

  • To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals. 

noun
  • Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse. 

  • A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic. 

  • A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time. 

How often have the words career and stampede occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )