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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

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

He has an unusually poor home run to fly ball rate, a stat that typically regresses to the mean over large sample sizes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2023

The confusion, the worry, the frustration of being the father of a child who grows and learns and then, suddenly, regresses.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2021

As the movie’s biggest name, Vaughn regresses to his second-rate deadpan comedy roles of old, forcing his way through a comedically constipated performance.

From New York Times Aug. 27, 2020

But Atlanta, and its know-nothing Liberty Media ownership, seems unaware that analytics predict its five-man rotation will not have anybody with an ERA under 4.00 as everybody regresses toward previous career performance.

From Washington Post Feb. 17, 2019

The pleasurable feeling-tone which normally belongs to ministering to others, regresses in the nervous invalid to the infantile satisfaction of being ministered unto.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson

But his recovery regressed, and he was shut down from throwing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

But at Dilley, she regressed behaviorally, wetting herself after years without accidents and begging to breastfeed again despite being 6 years old.

From Slate Feb. 3, 2026

Following this treatment, the remaining tumour fully regressed.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2026

Jones regressed and got benched—raising concerns that Belichick had mismanaged the young passer’s development.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 7, 2025

Reviewing the data on Algernon: although he is still in his physical youth, he has regressed mentally.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Greyson was meeting all his milestones and speaking normally until age 2, when he started regressing.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

But Kidman isn’t debasing herself or regressing just for the sick sight of it all.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2024

Bashir is a concern, regressing after a rapid rise.

From BBC Dec. 18, 2024

I only write when I feel like if I don’t write, then I’m moving backwards or I’m regressing in my own personal healing journey.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2024

“Barb” is what I was called as a child, and still am by my siblings, and I sense that at some level I’m regressing.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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