semiretirement
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Messi’s hat trick was a noisy rebuke to the skeptics who worry he’s lost a step, who think his sunny coda with the MLS’s Inter Miami is akin to a sun-tanned semiretirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
In fact, when the pilot script for “Matlock” arrived in her inbox in early 2023, she was actually planning to go into semiretirement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 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 lived there in semiretirement — playing gigs in bars, recording music and teaching guitar — until another big move changed his life once more.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
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