semiretirement
Americannoun
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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
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
He moved to Nashville in 1985 after years of semiretirement in Lake Tahoe, California.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 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
Sometime in the 1590s, the Tudor composer William Byrd moved to a farm in a village in Essex, living there in semiretirement for the rest of his life.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023
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