retarding
- present participle of retard.
Example Sentences
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Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
That drove prices in Europe and Asia to all-time highs earlier this year, fanning inflationary pressure and retarding efforts by countries to switch to gas from coal to reduce pollution and carbon emissions.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
Only the tides exert significant retarding torques on Earth, and so it will continue to spin, although ever more slowly, for many billions of years.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
It was Rivera, of course, who attracted the most attention, retarding the acknowledgement due to Siqueiros and Orozco.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2013
I had begun to believe that the Mediterranean Diet that kept my grandmother alive against her will was also sinisterly retarding my maturity.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
