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A case in point is a bill on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk that would retard artificial intelligence in the name of protecting public safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

The giant trees resist burning thanks to the bark, up to about 30 centimeters thick at the base, which contains tannic acids that retard flames.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 1, 2023

"Going forward, we'll be able to do tests on mice to see if new molecules that stabilise mitochondrial and autophagic function can retard the disease."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023

“Although you may retard an ignition or a fire spread for this season, what you’ve done is grown a lot more biomass to burn in the next year,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

To the ANC, the act was a deeply sinister measure designed to retard the progress of African culture as a whole and, if enacted, permanently set back the freedom struggle of the African people.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

If the levels of solutes increase beyond a certain range, a hormone is released that retards water loss through the kidney and dilutes the blood to safer levels.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Prior Vital Dufour, who was ordained Cardinal of the Catholic church by Pope Clement in 1313, once listed 40 of the virtues of Armagnac including: "It renders man joyous, preserves youth and retards senility."

From BBC ● May 28, 2022

Earlier, Holder posted a tweet that simply stated the law regarding the fines and imprisonment of up to six months that anyone who “willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail” can face.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2020

We found out it preserves the cells and retards the damage.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012

These quills bleed profusely when disturbed, which, of course, seriously retards the growth and progress of the birds.

From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by James Rankin

It retarded the progress after the Civil War by invalidating the civil rights acts and its invalidation of parts of the Voting Rights Act was fairly typical.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022

Based on some of the results, the team thinks microbes retarded the growth of inbreds, rather than giving the hybrids a special boost.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 29, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that states may not execute “mentally retarded offenders.”

From Slate ● May 22, 2020

In 2002, Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion in a 6 to 3 decision that banned the death penalty for the mentally retarded.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2019

That at least was the point of view of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, for whom Remedios the Beauty was in no way mentally retarded, as was generally believed, but quite the opposite.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

If an object is slid along a rough horizontal floor, it soon comes to rest because friction between it and the floor acts as a retarding force.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

It was Rivera, of course, who attracted the most attention, retarding the acknowledgement due to Siqueiros and Orozco.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2013

Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, or rye, retarding root development or depressing growth of seedlings.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson