retentive
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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
Alas! with all her reasonings, she found that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2021
My soil is dark, crumbly, and highly water retentive, but it also breathes.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018
He remains a preternaturally fast and retentive reader.
From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015
Bree memories being retentive, Frodo was asked many times if he had written his book.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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