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retreat

[ri-treet] / rɪˈtrit /




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But Paramount made a dramatic retreat Friday after two weeks of legal setbacks.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The retreat eased pressure on bond yields, which had jumped sharply this week as surging energy prices revived inflation fears.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

One of these could also be the perfect setting for your next company retreat.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

But it is a race against the clock and a turning tide means the small army of people gathering the harvest eventually beats a retreat to the shore.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

After enough aggravation, he’d retreat into his shell and harden over, and that would be the end of it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Yet the retreats have done little to appease Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Buddhism-themed tourism is thriving and tens of thousands of locals and foreigners sign up every year for "temple stay" retreats where they eat simple monastic food, do chores and meditate.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

To complete the trap, the spider wraps the cone with a thinner type of silk and quickly retreats upward.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

Surging artificial-intelligence spending and persistent inflation worries have fueled one of the fastest retreats for Wall Street’s biggest tech names in over a year, pushing a key “Magnificent Seven” fund into correction territory.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

According to Mrs. Clarke, the encounter could only be described as toreadorical: the outright threats and faked retreats, the defiant swirl of Lady Constance’s red skirts, the snorting, stamping protest of Lord Fredrick.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

He got things wrong with the way we retreated after scoring and his substitutions did not help.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

On both Monday and Tuesday, SpaceX nearly retreated to its IPO price of $135 a share, which valued the company at more than $1.7 trillion.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

After his shock loss in Paris, Sinner retreated from competitive action and did not play a tournament leading up to Wimbledon.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Many of the bloc’s biggest lenders retreated into their home markets after the 2008 financial crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

As the army retreated to safety he was the last to go, willing himself to walk slowly as if that were the way he had planned it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

If this ice begins retreating quickly, the process can become difficult to stop or reverse.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

France couldn’t even score into an open net, with Desire Doue lining a low shot right at a rapidly retreating Simón, who had come well off his line and left the goal unattended.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The apocalypse brothers remained unmoved as the game raged into the second half, Egypt retreating further as Mohamed Salah departed.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Now, markets are retreating in spectacular fashion, baffling executives and analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Usually, I could stand only a few minutes of the Faire before retreating to someplace quiet and safe.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate




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