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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
retrench .
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Examples
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These firms have been able to woo corporate clients by appealing to their concerns over conflicts inherent in full-service banks, and though relatively smaller in size, the two have been able to recruit high-profile rainmakers from the big firms as traditional Wall Street retrenches from the financial crisis.
M&A Boosts Results of Lazard, Evercore Liz Moyer 2011
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In practical terms, if the filibuster gets chopped, the GOP retrenches behind unanimous consent, and C-SPAN2 becomes orders of magnitude more tedious, if you ever imagined that possible.
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All of the tools that women gained over the 20th century to assert sovereignty over their bodies--contraception, abortion, sex education--are getting buried as the U.S. retrenches from its human rights commitments to women at home and abroad.
Michelle Chen: The Republican Attack on Women's Health Goes Global Michelle Chen 2011
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All of the tools that women gained over the 20th century to assert sovereignty over their bodies--contraception, abortion, sex education--are getting buried as the U.S. retrenches from its human rights commitments to women at home and abroad.
Michelle Chen: The Republican Attack on Women's Health Goes Global Michelle Chen 2011
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In practical terms, if the filibuster gets chopped, the GOP retrenches behind unanimous consent, and C-SPAN2 becomes orders of magnitude more tedious, if you ever imagined that possible.
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All of the tools that women gained over the 20th century to assert sovereignty over their bodies--contraception, abortion, sex education--are getting buried as the U.S. retrenches from its human rights commitments to women at home and abroad.
Michelle Chen: The Republican Attack on Women's Health Goes Global Michelle Chen 2011
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Whether the countries who could take up the slack as the US retrenches will behave in a wiser and more altruistic fashion seems a reasonable question, however.
The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum 2010
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Rather than joining the new age, Potter retreats and retrenches his belief that misery prevails when optimism fails.
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A wide swath of the bank's global banking and markets division is expected to be sold in the medium term as RBS retrenches.
RBS Narrows List of Suitors for $1.8 Billion in Asia Assets 2009
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U.S. imports are falling faster than U.S. exports as the American consumer retrenches for the recession.
Another Yuan 'Fix' 2009
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