retarded
Example Sentences
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It retarded the progress after the Civil War by invalidating the civil rights acts and its invalidation of parts of the Voting Rights Act was fairly typical.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022
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
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
Even exposures to less than lethal quantities may in the end cause death of the larvae, for inevitably the growth rate is retarded.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
