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
Some users took note of Rosa’s Law, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010, which replaced the phrase “mentally retarded individual” in federal statues with “individual with an intellectual disability.”
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 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
Then their third child, Larry, was born blind and profoundly retarded.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
