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
"I am doing everything I can as his parent to protect his wellbeing, and I cannot agree to a placement that I believe would put him or others at risk, or where he would regress."
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
Some children might regress to an earlier stage of development, becoming afraid of going to school and leaving their parents.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 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
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100 SAT words Beginning with "R"
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