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How to use the word retired in a Sentence?

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Ten were built in total, and this is the first one retired, it’s not transparent who exactly is buying them, but it’s a very, very large private aircraft and the only operators or buyers tend to be governments and royal families.

Connor Diver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Long Covid is pretty real, and there’s a sizable share of the population who continue to suffer health effects related to Covid that are preventing them from being able to work, then there’s ongoing child care challenges; we’ve got a lot of folks who retired early; we’ve got limited immigration not where it was pre-pandemic.

John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m a retired master chief and nobody knows what a retired master chief is.

Tony Gonzales

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am the daughter of a woman who at 61 has given so much to this country and is a minimum-wage worker that can’t afford health care, so she’s on Medicaid, and diabetic, i am the daughter of a man who spent 30 years working in an industrial bakery, a union busting company, and the day he retired, he got a frozen pie. He didn’t get a retirement pension and he struggled with Medicare supplemental, covering the cost.

Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of pilots retired. It's not easy to replace them, it's a long process, it's still going to be a year or so to have the airlines have a full schedule that this level of demand will dictate.

Jim Corridore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He thinks that she just got herself into a position in the bushes where she couldn't breathe, which didn't happen. It's not possible. We've talked to, you know, through our lawyer, we've gotten in touch with retired NYPD officers who run a private investigation firm and said that that's just absurd.

Rick Kuhnla Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For a long time I've thought I would have to hide my truth because I wanted to be, and now I am, a professional footballer, i asked Jake Daniels if I should wait until I've retired to come out. No other player in the professional game here is out. However, I knew that would lead to a long time of lying and not being able to be Jake Daniels or lead the life that I want to.

Jake Daniels

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a great relationship, i mean, all of the players — there are a few of them here — every one of them's gotten cussed out, including him. So that's just part of me, you know? That's nothing new, but we have a great relationship. As soon as he retired, I think we texted every week. 'Where you at? What are you doing? When are you gonna come play golf? When are you getting back down this way?' And so … people gotta write s---, and it couldn't be further from the truth.

Bruce Arians

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They cause awful inflammation and are implicated by a famous, now-retired heart surgeon who has 1,000 bypasses under his belt. He claims that sugar and refined vegetable oils are the real cause of heart disease, they damage the arterial walls, leading to injury, causing the body to create layers of deposits to repair the damage.

Ava Rockwell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were announcing his retirement before he even retired, you know, the media made the news. He was not ready to make any decision and didn’t make any decision, but [Adam] Schefter and [Jeff] Darlington stated it as fact. You know, he hadn’t made any decision on that.

Tom Brady

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Financial education, dealing with our financial advisors, make sure they understand, that our athletes need to have a legacy, and then also, lastly, dealing with our clients themselves, the athletes themselves and entertainers, making sure that we get behind them, their philanthropic endeavors, the life after the stage, after sports. Because even if you are a Tom Brady, you still have the rest of your life to live, right? What are you going to do with that? Even if you’re an anomaly like myself and played 11 years in the league, I was done in my 30s. I’m still fairly young, so I haven’t retired from life. And I think that what we’re going to do at UBS is we’re going to look at our athletes as businessmen, business women, entrepreneurs, knowing that this is just a small segment of their life. And once those 15 minutes of fame are up on the on the field, we want to make sure that you have a much longer, longer life to live toward getting that legacy for you and your family, maybe the communities that you’ve come from.

Adewale Ogunleye

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While I was playing, I interned in the offseason. I made sure on my off days I did community service to build up that resume for when after I retired, being undrafted, I knew it could come at any day. Thankfully, I ended up at Visa, Silicon Valley, where we’re able to use my skills from on the field and bring them to the boardroom and also getting my MBA, getting that terminology down, going from one team to the other. The playbook is different going from the Rams to the Buccaneers. So going from the field to the boardroom, the playbook is different. So I got my MBA to get knowledge, to get educated and to apply those skills at Visa.

Cameron Lynch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not only is the retired former President watching this from Florida, but I would also note that potential 2024 Republican candidates, I believe, are paying very close attention to this, there are many people, gearing up -- considering -- to run. And they are looking for that lane of an opening where Donald Jr. is weakened. ... If Mike Pompeo are a Mike Pompeo or a Mike Pence, this opens a window to Mike Pompeo if it goes further.

Farah Griffin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We’re in the age of our athletes taking care of their bodies, eating better, going, playing longer, you’re a sports guy. I know we’re on defense, but Tom Brady just retired. So, when you go ‘middle-aged,’ I think you need to broaden that term. I’m not sure what middle-aged is. ... As far as I know, those guys are still productive.

Alan Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We saw what most of us in the profession knew was going to happen, crime just skyrocketed, and [there are a] lack of resources. The pandemic definitely didn't help with officers getting sick and dying and not being able to perform their duties due to the pandemic. … [Police departments] were not hiring and, en masse, police officers retired throughout the country.

Lisa Dadio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In 2010, it was far worse than anything since because several of those retirements came from overwhelmingly Republican districts that House Democrats ' really couldn't compete for once the incumbents had retired.

Jesse Ferguson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When our announcer of 15 years Bill Wendell retired, producer Robert Morton came to my office with an audio tape containing auditions for several announcers, alan's was the first and only voice we listened to. We knew Alan Kalter RIP would be our choice. Whatever else, we always had the best announcer in television. Wonderful voice and eagerness to play a goofy character of himself. Did I mention he could sing ? Yes he could. He enthusiastically did it all.

David Letterman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When our announcer of 15 years Bill Wendell retired, producer Robert Morton came to my office with an audio tape containing auditions for several announcers. Alan’s was the first and only voice we listened to. We knew he would be our choice, whatever else, we always had the best announcer in television. Wonderful voice and eagerness to play a goofy character of himself. Did I mention he could sing? Yes he could. He enthusiastically did it all. A very sad day, but many great memories.

David Letterman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The U.S. military’s presence also allows the United States to maintain its influence in both eastern Syria and Iraq and deter Iran, said retired Army Gen. Joseph Votel, who led U.S. Central Command from March 2016 until March 2019. “Moreover, it keeps us engaged on the topic of ISIS, and other VEOs [violent extremist organizations], and especially detained fighters – whose disposition is still not finally determined,” Votel said. “Finally, I think our presence is about showing support for a partner that was very valuable to us.”

Joe Votel

added by MoWali
2 years ago

President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told a Des Moines audience Tuesday that his former boss can’t admit to making a mistake because “his manhood is at issue here.” “I don't understand it, although I had to deal with it every day, said Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who served as Trump’s top aide from July 31, 2017, until his Jan. 2, 2019, resignation.

Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly

added by MoWali
2 years ago

The State Department's 'maximum pressure' campaign has not pressured Iran toward diplomacy and a new agreement. It has pressured them toward an increase in malign activity in the region and toward the development of a nuclear weapon, said Mick Mulroy, Trump's former top Pentagon official for the Middle East and a retired CIA officer who's now an ABC News contributor.

Mick Mulroy

added by MoWali
2 years ago

The U.S. Military is far better off because of the contributions of women, said Mick Mulroy, a retired Marine and former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East and an ABC News contributor. They have been awarded for their valor on the battlefield and many have given the ultimate sacrifice for their country. We should take this time to ensure every American is aware of this history and not listening to those who are either unaware of this history or deliberately misrepresenting it, he said.

Mick Mulroy

added by MoWali
2 years ago

I know Drew Brees is retired, but they’ve won a lot of football games and sustained success, so we’ve got all the respect in the world for New Orleans.

Arthur Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the firefighters who was with me, who actually retired … due to burns on his legs, he was there digging for weeks with us. He actually passed away two years ago, but … he was not registered. And because he was not an active firefighter, it was very hard to get his claims in because the paperwork wasn't done.

Andrew Ansbro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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