Example Sentences

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In recent weeks, banks and building societies have been withdrawing mortgage deals in anticipation of higher interest rates.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2023

"Wealthier Americans," Robert Reich lamented as far back as the early 1990s, "have been withdrawing into their own neighborhoods and clubs for generations."

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2023

It also will apply to withdrawals from dollar accounts, where customers have been withdrawing some of their trapped savings in the local currency, at an exchange rate far lower than market value.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Men have been withdrawing from the labor force for decades.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

The track’s surveyed and blazed; they’re working at it in sections, but there are big gaps where nothing has been done yet, and they have been withdrawing a large 185 number of men.

From Prescott of Saskatchewan by Dunton, W. Herbert