pension
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Hundreds of workers and teachers marched through Asuncion on Monday, calling for the recovery of pension funds and threatening to stay the course until their demands are met.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
The same accounts show Morgan's pension pot, known as The Cash Equivalent Transfer Value, is just over £2m.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
I will always remember an elderly lady in Bootle, Merseyside, who had just collected her pension and insisted on putting £20 in a collection bucket as we walked down the north west coast.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
You have a $1 million brokerage account, but your pension and Social Security already cover your basic expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
But he had ended up working on the railroads, and he didn’t regret it, because now he had a small pension.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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"And when we stop working, we have pensions."
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Share ownership is widespread in the United States, where individual retirement funds invested in stocks and bonds are much more prevalent than government-funded pensions.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
It held pensions and some other public funds and, after its collapse earlier this week, millions could not access their accounts.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
It adds that the 51 largest publicly traded AI-related companies account for 35.1% of all equity investments by state and local pensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
And some of them are old and crumbling, back all the way to the Civil War, pensions for the last remaining widows on the Union side.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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It is the reason why James Anderson was pensioned off in 2024.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
The family is now composed of the same sort of banal attention-seekers and time-servers as the rest of Europe’s pensioned aristocracy, which includes Facebook-addled coup plotters and Epstein island guests of honor.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
The airline struggled with a 51-day pilots' strike between September and November 2017, grounding half its fleet and resulting in dozens of pilots being fired, while others resigned or were pensioned off.
From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2021
A horse is pensioned when it is no longer available for breeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
“Not that it need come to that,” Mr. Owen blurted, meaning Tansy might marry and be saved before she was pensioned off.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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The period-of-presumption idea was done away with entirely, the Government pensioning War veterans frankly on their civil disability.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She would have wished to pension off that Florence Burton with half her wealth, had such pensioning been possible.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
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