- present participle of retire.
retiring
Example Sentences
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Read next: I’m 55 and retiring in 6 years.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 19, 2026
Lynas’s statement announcing Lacaze’s departure said she was retiring, but she doesn’t like the word.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
The magic is share repurchases: GM has spent roughly $30 billion retiring 500 million shares over that span.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Erbach spent decades in the Bay Area and had owned a concert staging company in the United States before retiring to an ex-pat community near Guadalajara.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026
Unfortunately, he died before he could conduct the experiments and both the idea and the necessary equipment were passed on to a brilliant but magnificently retiring London scientist named Henry Cavendish.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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