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retire

[ri-tahyuhr] / rɪˈtaɪər /


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Speculation that Kelce might retire swirled around after last season’s disappointing finish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

If you enjoy your job, you’re healthy enough to keep doing it and you don’t need to retire for financial or personal reasons, there is no obvious reason to stop simply because you’ve reached 71.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"After almost 20 years, we have decided to permanently retire X2," park President Brian Oerding said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Pelinka even said the Lakers wanted James to retire with the franchise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Too disgusting, I had to retire to the vomitorium. Poor boy, actually seeing it—who can wonder? But in front of his father, and yours...What a blow to his pride!”

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

In white-ball cricket, Wood retires as England's sixth-highest wicket-taker in men's T20s with 54 from 38 matches, and he took 80 scalps in 70 one-day internationals.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes is a job for the World Meteorological Organization, which rotates them out every six years and retires them after a given storm causes too much destruction.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

When the 70-year-old Dombrowski eventually retires, Fuld could be in line to become the overarching team president in charge of both baseball and business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

If your spouse or ex-spouse retires before you do, you may be eligible to collect spousal benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

Sometimes you have an old real science teacher who retires or quits and leaves you without a replacement.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

Any cuts to Social Security benefits “would be devastating,” said Paul Rosenthal, 74, a retired physical therapist who lives in Oregon.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Burns, a retired police officer, looked up from his microphone and hissed back: “Tee-hee-hee, by a bunch of idiots!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

White is getting his No. 4 jersey retired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"The definition has been kept so vague that almost any benefit accruing to a person can be considered or argued to be an allurement," said Abhay Thipsay, a retired Bombay High Court judge.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Like Paupardin, they were retired French army officers—it was a job requirement—and they were old and tired.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Carrey, whose recent screen credits include the big-screen adaptation of the “Sonic the Hedgehog” franchise, said in 2022 he was “fairly serious” about retiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He occasionally performed with the group until retiring in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

After retiring from the ministry, I volunteered in local high schools and was stupefied by the lack of financial knowledge among students in the latter stages of their education.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Introduced in 2025, the two-seat, mid-front-mounted GT replaced the retiring Roma, a lovelier and more astute interpretation of the brief, complete with a historically redolent “eggcrate” grille.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

That he stole away to America as the houseboy of a retiring two-star general.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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