by choice
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"I just got an email and apparently I just got retired, not by choice but because I am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Kavanagh, 78, is a New Englander by birth and Californian by choice.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
Nada Reda Abu Sari, 82, however, has not stayed by choice.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
I was aged out of my profession in 2019, not by choice.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
These people, of course, were not ready for a revolution; they had not abandoned their past lives by choice, but because they simply could not live the old way any longer.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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