How to Use pension in a Sentence

pension

noun
  • Her pension arrives in the mail every month.
  • So, in its quieter way, is a pension.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The pension pay has now been added to that legal demand.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • First, get both pensions valued.
    — Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Nearly all those funds have been used to shrink pension debt or build reserves.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
  • But the pension system doesn’t want to be at the bottom, either.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • For years this was the preserve of pensions and insurers.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • French pensions consume about a quarter of the state budget.
    — Renaud Foucart, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Their pension checks still arrive like clockwork, despite months of war.
    — Lynsey Addario Megan Specia, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Macron tried to push for pension changes during his first term, in 2019.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The city needs to make sure every pension dollar works as hard as its taxpayers.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For some Americans in the labor force right now, that looks like a pension.
    — Martha C. White, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Gone are the days where people would stay at a job for 40 years and retire with a gold watch and pension.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But who would steal billions of pounds of ordinary people’s pensions and why?
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But who would steal billions of pounds of ordinary people’s pensions and why?
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 31 Dec. 2025
  • French governments fill the holes in pension deficits by taxing their own workers.
    — Renaud Foucart, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Think child support payments for the parents of young children, think old-age pensions.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This commitment would have spared the state its current crushing pension debt.
    — Bryce Chinault, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For them, taxpayers are the guardrail that keeps public pensions firmly on track.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Some of those shares could wind up in 401(k)s and pensions within the next couple of weeks.
    — Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • Europe needs a new social contract, at least for future pensions.
    — Renaud Foucart, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
  • With a pension, the risk of running out of money falls on the employer or plan sponsor.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • For those in the private sector, pensions are a rarity.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That puts the city’s pension systems among the 10 worst-funded in the country.
    — Mary Wagoner, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • This has been a hidden inequity for as long as the pension system existed.
    — John Cullerton, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • She was also expected to receive her pension in a couple of months.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The union is fighting for better wages and sick pay, pension increases and better health care.
    — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Instead of making tough choices on pensions and waste, leaders chose new fees and taxes.
    — Johnny Lee Dang, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • These securities rarely show up under their own name on a pension statement.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • But that plan also would curtail all state efforts to pay down pension debt in a faster-than-normal fashion.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026

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