retain
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Liverpool spent £415m last summer on six players - the highest outlay in a single window by a British club - in a bid to retain their title.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Paris St-Germain underlined their status as one of European football's greatest ever teams by becoming only the second club to retain the Champions League.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Previous work led by LMU physicist Dr. Giulia Roccetti showed that giant planets ejected from their systems may still retain some of their moons after being thrown into deep space.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Lagarde said policymakers must also be seen to make decisions that clearly connect with the goal of taming inflation if they are to retain support from households.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Many of them would retain lifelong memories of the first time they heard Ernest Lawrence describe the cyclotron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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