Sample Sentences for
retention
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    Good note-taking and regular review improves retention of information for exams.
    retention = keeping in memory
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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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    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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    Heather has stopped eating and complains about fluid retention.  (source)
    retention = keeping (continuing to have)
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    In addition, he has superior memory retention and reaction time.  (source)
    retention = keeping (i.e., ability to remember)
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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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