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The retrorocket helped to ensure that the spacecraft for China's first moon mission landed smoothly.
The increase in the goods and services tax was made retroactive to 1 March 2019, even though it was approved by parliament on 8 March 2019.
The students were told to write a retrospective essay of their high school years before their graduation ceremony.
The retrograde orbit of a distant planet outside our solar system puzzled many astronomers.
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Retrorocket:
The small, auxiliary rocket engine of the retrorocket burst immediately it was started.
Retroactive:
His retroactive headache was pertaining to pay raise effects to his whole body.
Retrospective:
The exhibition of the artist's life's work at the theater was a representative of the selection of retrospective work of the nineteenth century.
Retrograde:
The defender tried to retrograde and caused the only goal of game.
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1.- The entry, descent and landing system will utilise key technologies involving airbags and possibly retrorockets.
2.- Recently there has been considerable jurisprudence in the matter of retroactive payments in the company.
3.- The idea of commemoration manifests itself most strongly in the retrospective narrative provided by the interpolated stories.
4.- Life drawing has come to be regarded as a retrograde activity that now represents an ideological divide.
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