How to Use retrenchment in a Sentence

retrenchment

noun

• 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
• 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
• Securing the club’s long-term future meant short-term retrenchment.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The cure for overbroad easing isn’t overbroad retrenchment.
  — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
• Some in the market saw signs that a retrenchment might be at hand with last month’s boom and bust in shares popular on social media forums such as GameStop Corp. , which fell 2.2% Tuesday.
  — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
• The plan looked like retrenchment, and some industry observers wondered if the Pan America would even be released.
  — Mark Gardiner, New York Times, 31 May 2021
• Wars don’t end, but go underground; loss leads to resentment and then retrenchment, and a century and a half later, the conflict returns in new forms.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
• The retrenchment, which also could include reduced hours for some employees and a staff-wide pay freeze, is a response to bleak forecasts for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• People didn’t want to hear that we were still locked in a cycle of racial progress, backlash, retrenchment, and reformation of systems of racial and social control.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
• As such, a deep retrenchment of its investment bank presence outside its core Asian markets — namely in Europe and the U.S. — is inevitable.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• Two years later, as part of a governmentwide retrenchment, the agency's budget fell by 5%.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 15 Aug. 2019
• But with the tech industry in retrenchment mode, and tech workers getting laid off by the thousands, this year’s intern season is kicking off with a pall hanging over it.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 13 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024