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
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
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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