pension
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The state pension goes up each year in line with the highest of either inflation, wage increases, or 2.5%.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
So next April, the flat-rate state pension is expected to go above £13,000.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
In 2020, McClatchy went to court to restructure its finances, arguing it couldn’t meet its debt payments and pension obligations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Some firms impose mandatory retirement ages, typically around 65, or offer generous pension packages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
At last he would put the letter away carefully and begin his brooding again, trying to recall out of his past some telling fact that might help him in getting his pension.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Yet scholars deem Baldwin to have displayed many admirable leadership qualities—magnanimity, political astuteness, trustworthiness—and he was successful by his own lights, having passed reforms in housing and pensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Hedge funds have been on the opposite path as pensions, increasing their Treasury bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Earlier in July, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank suggested that the triple lock should be scrapped as part of a wider pensions overhaul.
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
I don’t recognize any of the people guarding me; Thibaut and Engel are all tucked up in their pensions, and von Linden is busy tormenting that screaming French girl.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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The following year, four years after the explosion, he was pensioned out of the army and started a university degree in psychology.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021
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
“Maybe it’s time for the whole thing to be pensioned off and rethought.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
“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
No European nation thinks of pensioning an ex-soldier simply because he was drafted to fight for his country.
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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More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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