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Ninety percent of children born with the condition will have retarded mental and physical development, experts say.

From Reuters Feb. 1, 2016

From C.I.O. came charges that Hillman "with stealthy efforts" was trying to make a deal with A.F. of L., was perpetrating "intolerable conditions that have retarded the progress of this industry."

From Time Magazine Archive

Soaring costs and the scarcity of practitioners and facilities in many areas have retarded the development of preventive medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Physical causes which have retarded progress in Australia.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

Henry was so much governed by passion, that nothing could have retarded his animosity and opposition against Rome, but some other passion, which stopped his career, and raised him new objects of animosity.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by Hume, David