retardation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

June Jackson Christmas, a psychiatrist who broke barriers as a Black woman by heading New York City’s Department of Mental Health and Retardation Services under three mayors, died on Sunday in the Bronx.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

"The Presidential Panel on Mental Retardation in one year made over 100 recommendations that would affect the future of research, health, social services, education, care, and professional development"

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2023

Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously affirmed a lower-court finding of contempt against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its interference with the use of electronic stimulus devices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016

In 2009, a state law changed the name of the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Department of Developmental Disabilities.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2016

Because the effect is indifferently to follow, either upon a suddain Acceleration, or a suddain Retardation.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry