How to Use retrenchment in a Sentence

retrenchment

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  • Few would be surprised by a retrenchment in the U.S. market.
    — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 16 May 2017
  • Jalili stands for retrenchment in the face of pressure from external forces such as the United States.
    — Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The Geffen Hall project was not the only retrenchment under Ms. Spar’s watch.
    — Robin Pogrebin and Michael Cooper, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The virus has only furthered the feeling of retrenchment.
    — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 23 June 2020
  • Over his years in policing, Mr. Stamper has seen the push and pull of reform and retrenchment play out in his own career again and again.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • By then, Cedars-Sinai was past its 1990s retrenchment and in expansion mode.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • The laconic folk of Schmilco chased the power-pop retrenchment of Star Wars.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 June 2022
  • This is not so much a retrenchment of the single market as an abrupt truncation.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The studios did save money on production in the short term and could engineer more retrenchment in the months ahead.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • And despite this being one of the best-ever years for video games, there’s been a broader retrenchment in the industry.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2023
  • With the falling oil price, there has been widespread retrenchment in Qatar and even talk of imposing a tax system.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • For the first time in the post–Cold War era, establishing the desirability of retrenchment might be the easy part.
    — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The inversion had been wrong only once, in the mid-1960s, and has foretold every retrenchment since.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • Loeb backed off that position, but nothing is out of the question at a time of media retrenchment.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The cuts come amid a major retrenchment for the sector, which this year has had the highest number of year-to-date layoffs since the 2001 dotcom bubble burst.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Could Joe Biden resurrect such a peace process at a time of American retrenchment from the region?
    — Martin Indyk, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • There must be an equally profound understanding by the West of how steep the price would be for any retrenchment in the face of Russian bluster.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • And now Holland, like some of his predecessors, has called for a retrenchment.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Amid the stagnation of the farm system and the financial retrenchment, important pieces on the Cubs’ roster slumped this year.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The elimination of about 13% of the newsroom staff is the first major retrenchment since the paper was acquired five years ago by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • For decades, American economic life has been defined by the retrenchment of the former and the vast expansion of the latter.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 5 June 2020
  • The U.S. retrenchment is apparent on issues from trade to climate change.
    — chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • Securing the club’s long-term future meant short-term retrenchment.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That retrenchment left the door wide open for false and misleading claims by both Trump supporters and opponents.
    — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 15 July 2024
  • But Corden’s departure comes amid a retrenchment in late night.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The cuts amount to 14% of the retailer’s headquarters posts, according to a statement Tuesday, and mark the latest retrenchment by the struggling video-game chain.
    — Christopher Palmeri, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Ukraine was ready for radical change, not retrenchment.
    — Leonid Bershidsky, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Failure could lead to a retrenchment into fossil fuels across the Global South.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The company is on track to stage a comeback after years of retrenchment following its fatal blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
    — Sarah Kent, WSJ, 27 July 2018
  • Progressives take it as a given that retrenchment would not undermine their foreign policy goals.
    — Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

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