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cloistered, covert, hidden, isolated, quiet, remote, secluded, secret, sheltered
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Active or retired military and first responders will receive 20 percent off on Monday. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "The Dish: 2019 guide to Labor Day weekend food and drink deals in San Diego County," 29 Aug. 2019 Once Foxx dropped those charges, petitioner Sheila O'Brien, a retired judge, had questions and asked for the special prosecutor. — CBS News, "Former U.S. attorney to serve as special prosecutor in Jussie Smollett case," 24 Aug. 2019 Haas, a retired Stark County Common Pleas Court judge who took over the case after the judges in the Justice Center recused from the case involving their former colleague, is set to sentence Mason on Sept. 12. — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, "Disgraced judge Lance Mason pleads guilty to ex-wife’s murder, faces life in prison," 20 Aug. 2019 Gates will open at 6 p.m. The first pitch will be at 7:05 p.m. Military (active and retired) and first responders get two free tickets at the TDECU ticket office each Monday with proof of ID. — Houston Chronicle, "Fort Bend-area calendar of events," 12 Aug. 2019 The Kentucky Education Association, which represents 44,000 active and retired teachers said it has not been involved in the state's teacher recruitment campaign. — Mandy Mclaren, The Courier-Journal, "Kentucky teacher shortage: Are 'thousands' of jobs actually vacant?," 12 Aug. 2019 The old retired boat was moored in a slough near Anacortes, Washington, in very poor condition, but Kehoe had big plans. — Smithsonian, "John Steinbeck’s Epic Ocean Voyage Rewrote the Rules of Ecology," 22 Aug. 2019 Wanted: longer days A decade ago, a retired teacher with too much free time and too little to do was directed to Julian’s Town Hall. — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, "If this isn’t hop country, why is San Diego harvesting a bumper crop?," 19 Aug. 2019 But in the 1980s, David Woodman, a retired mariner and history writer based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, analyzed the reports of Inuit witnesses. — National Geographic, "In 1845 explorers sought the Northwest Passage—then vanished," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'retired.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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