retarded

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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

In 2002, Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in a 6 to 3 decision that banned the death penalty for the mentally retarded.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2019

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

That at least was the point of view of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, for whom Remedios the Beauty was in no way mentally retarded, as was generally believed, but quite the opposite.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez