regress
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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
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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
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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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