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pension

[pen-shuhn, pahn-syawn] / ˈpɛn ʃən, pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃ /


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Among the big clients that have pulled money out is Wisconsin’s pension fund, according to people familiar with the matter and disclosures reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

A 10-year Treasury yielding more than 5% starts looking awfully attractive to retirees, pension funds, insurers, foreign institutions and anyone else searching for dependable income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Investment decisions on the larger pot of money require a vote by the pension boards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The supervisor of New York City’s pension funds, one of the largest in the United States, asked Anthropic to postpone its stock market debut until risks posed by its artificial intelligence technology are better controlled.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even with a nice pension and some properties, a person couldn’t afford a stepson like that.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Nearly a third of the education ministry's budget for 2027 is to go towards pensions, according to a government report on the draft plan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In Finland, depression is the leading individual cause of both extended sick leave and disability pensions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

They’re saving because a hospital bill could wipe them out, rural pensions are a pittance and migrant workers in cities still can’t access urban social-safety nets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

This is the most important line in your letter: “My financial adviser is particularly concerned about the parents being left with virtually no assets beyond their pensions and Social Security.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

As inflation ate away at their modest government pensions, Elizebeth spent long hours going over their checkbooks, bank records, and tax forms.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

This is why James Anderson was pensioned off, why performances in domestic cricket were largely ignored and why parts of the County Championship were turned into an experiment with the Kookaburra ball.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025

The family is now composed of the same sort of banal attention-seekers and time-servers as the rest of Europe’s pensioned aristocracy, which includes Facebook-addled coup plotters and Epstein island guests of honor.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023

The airline struggled with a 51-day pilots' strike between September and November 2017, grounding half its fleet and resulting in dozens of pilots being fired, while others resigned or were pensioned off.

From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2021

A horse is pensioned when it is no longer available for breeding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020

“Not that it need come to that,” Mr. Owen blurted, meaning Tansy might marry and be saved before she was pensioned off.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The period-of-presumption idea was done away with entirely, the Government pensioning War veterans frankly on their civil disability.

From Time Magazine Archive

To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would have wished to pension off that Florence Burton with half her wealth, had such pensioning been possible.

From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope


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