retrench
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It even stands to benefit if consumers retrench.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
CVS Chief Executive David Joyner said in an interview that the Oak Street business needs to retrench, after coming under pressure from higher medical costs and regulatory changes in the Medicare business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Rickey would rather they retrench into a nostalgia tour of laughs and revelry — he’s even found the tan Chrysler LeBaron they used to ride in.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
"If consumers retrench... the entire economy is going to go down with it," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025
If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it he is no longer Ovid.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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