retentive
Example Sentences
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In March 2024, with the biotech company’s share price down around 80% from the date of the equity grant, Guardant’s board concluded that the award “no longer offered meaningful financial or retentive value.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
His was the most nimble and retentive mind I’ve ever worked with closely over time.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022
Alas! with all her reasonings, she found that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2021
Does it activate the parts that make us more empathetic, more attentive, more retentive?
From The New Yorker • Jan. 27, 2015
Yet, despite my retentive memory, I found it impossible to recite when I went back into the classroom.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
