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retentive

[ri-ten-tiv] / rɪˈtɛn tɪv /




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Changes in the company’s recommendations algorithm, which provides more impressions for highly retentive games at the expense of near-term monetization, added further pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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

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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