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

As I got older, my mind shed some of its retentive powers.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2020

My soil is dark, crumbly, and highly water retentive, but it also breathes.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018

Yet, despite my retentive memory, I found it impossible to recite when I went back into the classroom.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright