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How to pronounce “retains”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of retains with real speech in context.
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so long as it retains the other half.
- Definition summary
- third-person singular simple present indicative of retain
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How to pronounce retains
3 Ideas for Communicating Across the Political Divide

so long as it retains the other half.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- third-person singular simple present indicative of retain
- [Noun]
- (obsolete) plural of retain
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