regress
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Not that stars tell us much: A Journal study in 2017 showed that five-star funds often regress to being just average after winning the accolade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Yet if these growth rates regress to the mean, as they have in the past, value stocks are quite likely to outperform growth stocks over the next several years.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026
Responding imperfectly in a moment of great stress doesn’t mean that this is a story designed to show how women fail each other, or how women are pitted against each other, or to regress feminism.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025
She said one of her constituents had told her how her daughter had "started to regress" since her last therapy programme had ended, while some providers had resorted to fundraising to continue to offer support.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2025
Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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