retained
Example Sentences
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No team has ever retained the T20 World Cup and no side have ever won the trophy on home soil.
From Barron's
But ICE officials later reported that some security footage of his last hours was hard to see clearly and other crucial video “not retained.”
From Salon
Because the specimen is a juvenile, scientists cannot yet confirm whether adult individuals of the species retained the same structures as they matured.
From Science Daily
Jones retained an attorney and fought the conservatorship.
From Los Angeles Times
The adaptation retained the 18th-century setting and the central plot: The teenage siren Manon, on her way to a convent, runs off with a smitten young aristocrat, the Chevalier Des Grieux.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
