stunted

• “Many analysts agree that hiring will remain stunted until businesses find a higher level of confidence in the economy, regardless of the availability of money to borrow.”

  Forbes: Fed Taunts Inflation Demons With Quantitative Easing

• “Leaving the marriage only results in stunted growth.”

  Keeping Your Marriage

• “Yet stunted is an ugly and misleading word: for the flowers that grow here are not deformed midgets but perfectly proportioned miniatures – real plants seen through the wrong end of the glass.”

  Try Anything Twice

• “But Jim is kind of stunted in his career, and his dream isn't to be selling paper.”

  The Huffington Post: Rebecca Macatee: Outsourced's' Ben Rappaport Says Show Stereotypes Human Nature, Not Indian Culture

• “Ross and others are conducting research from a Greenpeace ship in the Gulf, using a two-man sub as they work to determine if the corals have suffered damage, or may take a hit from long-term impacts, such as stunted reproduction rates.”

  The Huffington Post: Gulf Corals In Oil Spill Zone Appear Healthy

• “An example: If a person were to say that a short tree is "stunted".”

  'R word' politics stir up controversy

• “The lava substrate has the ability in places to trap and retain moisture, allowing for a more mesophytic vegetation, such as stunted Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine, to occur in some areas.”

  Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)

• “Obesity can have serious health consequences in young children, such as stunted hip and leg-bone growth, says David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The War on Obesity

• “Yes, there is plenty of "stunted" characters (like Tippi Hedren in The Birds), but Hitchcock uses an adult eye to gaze at them.”

  Hitchcock and Adult Sexuality

• “First of all, what kind of stunted aesthetic do you have to have to think the Rocket Reds look good?”

  ROCKET REDS vs GUARDSMAN: WHO YA GOT?

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