semiretirement
Americannoun
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The songs are so good that the label’s founder, Bad Religion guitarist and L.A. punk icon Brett Gurewitz, came out of semiretirement to be their producer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
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
Irvin was home near Atlanta settling into semiretirement with his wife and kids when the Seahawks called him in October and asked him to try out.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023
He was living in semiretirement on his estate in Chile when Pedro I asked him to serve Brazil.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
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