semiretirement
Americannoun
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Persuaded to come out of semiretirement, she rejoined the school board, winning election in 2019 and serving the last two years as board president — some 40 years after she first was board president.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024
In January, Rovner, now 85, announced that she would take senior status, a kind of semiretirement, upon the confirmation of her successor.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024
Clive Owen plays Dashiell Hammett’s famed detective Sam Spade, who in the show’s first episode moves to a sleepy village in the South of France in the early 1960s and settles into semiretirement.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2024
He was living in semiretirement on his estate in Chile when Pedro I asked him to serve Brazil.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
By the 2010s, she had entered semiretirement and was spending her days writing, meditating and visiting with her neighbors in Berea, an intellectually vibrant town in the foothills of the Appalachians.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2021
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