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
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
And we definitely do not need to regress.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
These infinities represent an unending regress that goes on not just very far, but forever.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing regress
Spinnin' Around
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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100 SAT words Beginning with "R"
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