pension
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I retired eight months ago and have a regular defined-benefit pension, Roth IRA, traditional IRA and other investments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
My mother has a pension, Social Security, investments and a house probably worth over $1 million.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Like Sarah Moorhouse she won't get her UK state pension until she is 67.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
It also would authorize a new, more generous pension formula that public-safety employees and local governments could negotiate in collective-bargaining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
From Granny I learned—over a course of years—that he had been wounded in the Civil War and had never received his disability pension, a fact which he hugged close to his heart with bitterness.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Hedge funds have been on the opposite path as pensions, increasing their Treasury bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It pays out pensions in hard cash, it takes payment for utility bills.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
They set pensions up for both kids when they were born and have been paying into them through a monthly direct debit.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The savings, pensions and retirement income specialist posted a strong set of results, with operating profit ahead of consensus, supported by strong growth in assets under administration, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“They get holidays, don’t they? And — and sick leave, and pensions, and everything?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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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
Due to a deteriorating psychiatric condition, Ms Murray was pensioned off from the civil service in August 2019.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
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
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Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek.
From Time Magazine Archive
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How well would the revenues of a country be expended, if, by mere pensioning, one-fifth of its population could be induced to live as I do!
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
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