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retained

continued in your keeping or use or memory

In a sentence

Six example sentences with retained, each labelled with its topic.

  • Retained earnings, rather than any new loan, paid for the second factory and the machines inside it.

    Finance

  • Retained counsel arrived within the hour, since the firm had been on the family's payroll for two decades.

    Law

  • The retained negatives from forty years of assignments filled a shoebox that a museum eventually bought for its archive.

    Photography

  • The retained facade of the old bank now fronts a glass tower, and only the ground floor is original.

    Architecture

  • Retained vocabulary after a month was twice as high for students who took a quiz instead of simply rereading the list.

    Psychology

  • The retained logs cover only ninety days, so an investigation into last spring's outage had nothing to read.

    Technology

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