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Retention of what is read improves when students cultivate an interest in what they are reading.retention = keeping information in memory
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The school is trying to improve freshman retention.retention = keeping (freshman the next year)
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The company had a bad year, but it still paid retention bonuses to its most valuable employees.retention = keeping (employee)
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We have an email retention system that keeps copies of email for two years.retention = keeping
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High salt intake increases water retention.retention = keeping (in the body)
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Good note-taking and regular review improves retention of information for exams.retention = keeping in memory
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But thanks to dramatic water retention, it was a doughy, moon-faced, muscleless weight. (source)retention = being held in the body
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Other authors have noted the terrible retention rates of evangelical churches and blamed precisely that sort of theology for their decline. (source)retention = keeping (continuing participation)
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Fifteen years ago, the government had set aside all this money to clean up the White River by building more sewage retention pools and expanding this tunnel system that runs underneath downtown, diverting a creek called Pogue's Run. (source)retention = ponding area
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Any new development like this has to have a retention pond for storm runoff. (source)retention = area to hold water
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Every other week there was a news story about some geriatric citizen tripping into a retention pond and being devoured by alligators. (source)retention = to hold water
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Heather has stopped eating and complains about fluid retention. (source)retention = keeping (continuing to have)
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He was on immunosuppressants so his body wouldn't reject the new heart, and since those made him prone to infection, he was taking high doses of antibiotics as well, and a diuretic had been prescribed to prevent fluid retention. (source)retention = extra kept in the body
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But Waugh pointedly chose to ignore these native appellations (as well as official policy encouraging the retention of local or ancient names), and Everest was the name that stuck, Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed. (source)retention = keeping
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In addition, he has superior memory retention and reaction time. (source)retention = keeping (i.e., ability to remember)
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It is a state of mind, a melting pot that represents the very, very best of America's evolution, an example of retention of a very special culture in a progressive environment of modern change. (source)retention = keeping
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Before I had left Chicago I had thought of a thousand arguments to present for the retention of the John Reed Clubs, but now the retention of those clubs did not seem important. (source)retention = keeping (continuing to have)
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Dropping of its own accord upon his exit (or perhaps purposely closed), it had become fastened by the spring; and it was the retention of this spring which had been mistaken by the police for that of the nail,—farther inquiry being thus considered unnecessary. (source)retention = keeping
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