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regress

[ri-gres, ree-gres] / rɪˈgrɛs, ˈri grɛs /


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"Its the perfect time" for South Korea to leverage its strategic advantage and make investments as "the AI boom might die down" and demand could regress, he told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

Instead, the cells appeared to regress into a more juvenile form.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

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

“We must leave. Now. I should warn you that my mother may return momentarily. If I see her again. I'll regress horribly. We must dash.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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