retained
Example Sentences
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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.
Unlike WhatsApp, Max appears to lack end-to-end encryption, meaning messages are not scrambled while travelling between the reader and sender and could possibly be retained by the state.
From Barron's
Scottish salmon has retained its position as the UK's biggest food export, while exports of Scotch whisky have dropped, according to new figures.
From BBC
Attempts by The Times to reach Conte at numbers listed for him in public records were unsuccessful, and court records do not indicate whether he retained an attorney in past cases.
From Los Angeles Times
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