regress

Example Sentences

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Mississippi’s fourth-graders will again regress toward the mean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 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

Rachel Slaughter said her son will only receive six months of therapy this year and fears he will "regress" as a result.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

This internal war between wanting to regress and disappear, to try to gain control or just make peace and be present, could become a dramatic conflict if each instinct was embodied by a different person.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

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