retired
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“When you have that level of anxiety over the clouds, it juices the experience,” Elliot Borgman, a 77-year-old retired astronomer from Lansdowne, Penn., told me over breakfast the morning after August’s eclipse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"I think that this really is probably a once in a lifetime event," Kim Harrison, a 45-year-old retired teacher from California, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
He had retired in 2020 after almost 30 years working as a taxi driver, and had previously worked as a bus conductor.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
No one challenged that interpretation until Dodger pitcher Andy Messersmith and retired Expo Dave McNally entered arbitration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The photographer, a retired Central Intelligence Agency agent named Howard Hunt, sat down to take notes.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
