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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At this stage, the Government began to retrench on its nuclear programmes.
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Pru-Bache is to retrench to Bache's old strength of retail stockbroking.
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The hospitals would be left to retrench naturally, while community services would remain patchy and slow to evolve.
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These recent proposals reflect Moscow's current priority to retrench economically and militarily in the Third World.