retrogress

Example Sentences

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Sir: Premarital Murdock flagrantly contradicts his own anthropology and science when he advocates that we should retrogress thousands of years into the primitive "gland-motivated" society.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to struggle is to retrogress, to collapse, to go revisionist.

From Time Magazine Archive

That certain animals degenerate or retrogress in their development is susceptible of ready and familiar illustration.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up.

From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold