retarded
Example Sentences
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Based on some of the results, the team thinks microbes retarded the growth of inbreds, rather than giving the hybrids a special boost.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 29, 2021
Supreme Court ruled that states may not execute “mentally retarded offenders.”
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
But millennials’ progress through life has been measurably retarded by the Great Recession, a two-track labor market in which many high-paying jobs require a college education and record levels of student debt.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2019
Of the four Smith brothers, one has schizophrenia; another, as an infant, was deemed “mentally retarded with autistic tendencies.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
Gay connected the dry cells and he advanced the gas and retarded the spark lever.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
