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

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

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

On the night of the sleepover, she and Shanti regress easily to twelve-year-old behavior.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins