pensioner
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"At first I was quite positive about the skyscraper," says Karvela, the pensioner.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
In the southern Athens seaside suburb of Glyfada, a pensioner struggles to cross an avenue with her shopping trolley, zigzagging between cars stuck in traffic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Eighty-year-old pensioner Maria Romero said: "This earthquake was horrible, even worse than the one in 1967."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
That is set to rise by over a quarter between 2025 and 2030, with the main increases being sickness-related payouts for working age adults and pensioner benefits.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The final addition to the regular group at the farm was Mr. Jelliman, an amiable white pensioner and old friend of the movement who became the farm foreman.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
"Every single person I talk to is struggling to make ends meet with food parcels, with clothing the children for school, from people 20 upwards, to pensioners," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The United Kingdom, for instance, considered doing away with checks entirely in 2009, but ultimately backtracked after pensioners protested to members of Parliament.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
She said she now plans to take some time off, do some park runs and "go back to getting beat by small children and pensioners".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
While the group phase was reaching its dramatic culmination in North America, retiree Stefania Tentarelli went to her cobblestone local piazza to watch fellow pensioners play an 18th-century Neapolitan card game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
We are the only boarders on the fourth floor under the age of eighty; our other neighbors are all widows and pensioners.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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