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Johnson’s motive for fighting the video gambling terminals would be because revenues would eat into the city’s first casino at Bally’s Chicago, which was billed as a way to help buoy pension funds, and because critics say vice taxes are a regressive way to raise revenue.
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Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.
—Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
That distinction, Reynolds argues, lacks a rational basis in a financial context and results in a regressive penalty for pet owners who shoulder substantial care costs without relief.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Just like its twentieth-century inverse, the depopulation panic could produce decidedly regressive outcomes.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.
—Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
That distinction, Reynolds argues, lacks a rational basis in a financial context and results in a regressive penalty for pet owners who shoulder substantial care costs without relief.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
Just like its twentieth-century inverse, the depopulation panic could produce decidedly regressive outcomes.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regressive
degressive
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Three frames from a video (below) showing a 70 kg climber ascending a 3.7 m vertical glass surface using a synthetic adhesion system with degressive load-sharing and gecko-inspired adhesives.—
Seriously Science,
Discover Magazine,
3 Dec. 2014
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“Regressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regressive. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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