Used in a Sentence

stunting

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stunting.

Editorial note

Unfortunately, many times that means growing callous to all emotions and stunting your ability to empathize.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(informal) The act of performing stunts or ostentatiously showing off.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stunting gathered in one view.

noun

(informal) The act of performing stunts or ostentatiously showing off.

noun

(medicine) Stunted growth, often caused by chronic malnutrition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stunting.

Example sentences

1

Unfortunately, many times that means growing callous to all emotions and stunting your ability to empathize.

2

By taking a tool like that away from your team you're stunting their growth and your product.

3

The new portrayal of comment rankings keeps interesting information from users and will end up stunting the community's progress.

4

Probably the single biggest growth stunting problem with the Android platform is the lack of a good advertising campaign.

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Like I said, I mean this in the best way possible, but you probably have an internet addiction that is stunting your social growth.

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A diet of only McDonald's is more than sufficient to prevent this kind of stunting.

7

Squidly behavior (stunting and the like) should not be tolerated (more closed circuit roads would help, as it did with drag racing).

8

You sound like one of those people in the suburbs stunting Atlanta's public transit because it would bring in more black people.

9

To accomplish this, we may employ various stunting and/or tripwire methods to ensure the AGI develops within our parameters.

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Consider this restatement: Like I said, I mean this in the best way possible, but you probably have an air addiction that is stunting your social growth.

11

If a Google or Microsoft could have patiented basic computer tech, they would have, stunting the growth of the field for 50 years or so.

12

Fundamentalism always makes me a little sad because it's so stunting.

Quote examples

1

I just know that as someone who is viewed as "creative", my personal experience is that the stereotype is stunting.

2

Removing or stunting them with a new paradigm certainly changes things, but rarely if ever in a black and white, "things are universally [better|worse] now" way.

3

Modern cheerleading with "stunting" is basically group gymnastics.

Proper noun examples

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Stunting affects about 147 million children worldwide.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stunting in a sentence?

Unfortunately, many times that means growing callous to all emotions and stunting your ability to empathize.

What does stunting mean?

(informal) The act of performing stunts or ostentatiously showing off.

What part of speech is stunting?

stunting is commonly used as noun.