as in reverting
to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level
the quality of research at the university lab has begun to retrogress since the massive budget cuts went into effect
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One dares to hope that Hollywood, for all its current ills, may finally be turning a corner, reverting back to when new ideas were held at a premium.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025 -
Other changes include renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and reverting Alaska's Denali mountain to Mount McKinley.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Worn 30 to 45 minutes a day for 20 days, Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects can remove a decade’s worth of iced coffees, Diet Cokes, and chiantis, returning your mouth to mint condition and keeping it that way for months and months.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The new version still sees the ball kicked from the kicking team’s 35-yard line, but every player on the kicking team other than the kicker themself now lines up with at least one foot on the returning team’s 40-yard line.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Retrogressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrogressing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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