How to Use retrenchment in a Sentence

retrenchment

noun
  • But there’s a risk in the retrenchment, too.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Douglass would not have been surprised by that cycle of progress and retrenchment.
    — Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The profound consequences of this year’s retrenchments will be felt for years to come.
    — Alice Park, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by public retrenchment.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • This is not so much a retrenchment of the single market as an abrupt truncation.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • What stands out now is how early and broadly this retrenchment is happening.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Securing the club’s long-term future meant short-term retrenchment.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Even in moments of retrenchment or seeming reversal, progress has found a way.
    — John Hope Bryant, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • 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 scale of the retrenchment has been considerable.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • But Corden’s departure comes amid a retrenchment in late night.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps it will be said that this moment was one of overreach followed by retrenchment before a new advance.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Feb. 2025
  • And now Holland, like some of his predecessors, has called for a retrenchment.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2021
  • 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 Hollywood is still going through a painful retrenchment.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The benefit of the doubt remains with the bullish overall trend, even while the case for a tactical pause or retrenchment builds.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 July 2025
  • 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
  • The cuts have been described as one of the largest retrenchments in the federal safety net in a generation.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • Jalili stands for retrenchment in the face of pressure from external forces such as the United States.
    — Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • Sahm warned that if tariffs and weak job growth persist, today’s resilience could turn into tomorrow’s retrenchment.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • By then, Cedars-Sinai was past its 1990s retrenchment and in expansion mode.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Failure could lead to a retrenchment into fossil fuels across the Global South.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The laconic folk of Schmilco chased the power-pop retrenchment of Star Wars.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 June 2022
  • Could Joe Biden resurrect such a peace process at a time of American retrenchment from the region?
    — Martin Indyk, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The inversion had been wrong only once, in the mid-1960s, and has foretold every retrenchment since.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • What looked to some like retrenchment was, in reality, a deliberate bet on long-term resilience over short-term momentum.
    — Richard McCathron, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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 donation comes after a period of rapid expansion and retrenchment.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2026

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