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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.

Fed Taunts Inflation Demons With Quantitative Easing Heather Struck 2010

Leaving the marriage only results in stunted growth.

Keeping Your Marriage 2006

Leaving the marriage only results in stunted growth.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

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 1938

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

Rebecca Macatee: Outsourced's' Ben Rappaport Says Show Stereotypes Human Nature, Not Indian Culture Rebecca Macatee 2011

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

Rebecca Macatee: Outsourced's' Ben Rappaport Says Show Stereotypes Human Nature, Not Indian Culture Rebecca Macatee 2011

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.

Gulf Corals In Oil Spill Zone Appear Healthy AP 2010

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

'R word' politics stir up controversy 2010

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) 2009

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 War on Obesity 2008