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regression

[ri-gresh-uhn] / rɪˈgrɛʃ ən /


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These are people for whom 20th-century progress felt a lot more like regression, and certainly the source of moral confusion.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Conditional logistic regression allowed them to compare changes within individual patients.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

“And because I think that the last ‘pen that he had, there was a little bit of regression.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

But if he does return to ties and suits as prime minister, it will only be a regression to his previous Westminster look.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

The reason may not be the greed of the movie industry in cashing in on the first film’s popularity, but simply another instance of regression to the mean.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Datadog’s strength revolves around observability, which is all about “providing context to the state of every part of the business including performance regressions, outages, or issues concerning security and compliance,” according to the company’s website.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

“If key departures slow iteration, cause quality regressions, or reduce community trust, the open-source flywheel weakens.”

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

They solve problems, explain steps, interpret statistical output and run regressions from uploaded data.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Former audio programmer Isaac Hudd says "mistakes started piling up" during crunch, and says "regressions", where one team would fix a bug only for another to unwittingly bring it back to life, became increasingly common.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2025

Some apparent regional or continentwide regressions of technology in Australia may stem from the isolation and relatively few inhabitants of its population centers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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