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retirement

[ri-tahyuhr-muhnt] / rɪˈtaɪər mənt /




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Thanks in part to new diagnostic tools that can identify Alzheimer’s earlier, many of today’s patients are healthier, more active and more accustomed to traveling through retirement.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

I am single, just turned 56 and have more than $1.4 million saved in retirement accounts.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Vaughan found Bonnie a retirement home to ensure she could live out her life in the right conditions but says she lost all the money she'd spent on the horse.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

What happens to a healthy, active 65-year-old whose plan was designed for 25 years of retirement if they live an additional 40 or 45 years instead?

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Most of the people had known us since we were kids, but a bunch of people came up from Arkansas, where Mom had lived in a retirement village until she died.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

If parents live into their 100s, heirs may not receive a meaningful inheritance until they are in their 60s or 70s, potentially after their own retirements have already begun.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Their job is to invest assets to secure teachers’ retirements.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

New recruits have yet to offset retirements, and courts across the state remain critically understaffed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

As a family they had hoped the second home on the coast would be a place to bring their children and enjoy their retirements.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

All my slighted duties, cold retirements, and small returns for love unselfish even unto death, I cast into the abyss of His mercy.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr




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