retrench

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"While the economic landscape may look benign one day, an abrupt shift in sentiment and financial conditions could lead to a recessionary environment the very next day if everyone starts retrenching."

From Reuters

“Greater consumer caution weakened demand and mobility, which fell to multiweek lows. Employment soured, production retrenched, and the health tracker fell on surging Delta variant contagion,” Oxford’s team of U.S. economists wrote.

From Reuters

The weekly figure had topped 900,000 back in January, when the economy was still struggling to emerge from the recession and employers were retrenching.

From Washington Times

Now cities such as Portland, considered among the most ambitious in moving to reshape its police force, have retrenched.

From Washington Post

Faced with cord-cutting and incursions by streaming services, major broadcast media companies have retrenched and sought strength through mergers.

From Seattle Times