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developmentally

adv. In a developmental manner.

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developmentally

adv. with respect to development; "developmentally retarded"

Usage examples of "developmentally".

Beginning in 1963, officials at the Willowbrook State School, a residence for developmentally disabled children in Staten Island, New York, intentionally infected healthy children with hepatitis in order to test the effects of gamma globulin on the disease.

And these mythical machineries of evil Lolita narratives perpetuate a misogyny that imposes developmentally abnormal sexuality on some females and simultaneously punishes all females for any sexuality.

A decade or so later, doubting that incest could be that common, he concluded that the reported sexual activity had probably not really happened but was a fantasy connected with the developmentally important attraction that naturally occurs between daughter and father or son and mother, which he called the Electra Complex and the Oedipus Complex.

Oak Grove House, private residential home for developmentally disturbed children, stood behind a high brick wall.