regression

These are people for whom 20th-century progress felt a lot more like regression, and certainly the source of moral confusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Conditional logistic regression allowed them to compare changes within individual patients.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

“And because I think that the last ‘pen that he had, there was a little bit of regression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

But if he does return to ties and suits as prime minister, it will only be a regression to his previous Westminster look.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Nemur: “I’m not afraid of regression any more. I’ve checked and rechecked everything. An interim report will do no harm. I feel sure nothing can go wrong now.”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

They had run the regressions, conducted the robustness checks, and done the work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

A simple regression showed that — including similar control variables as in prior regressions — the likelihood of private listings and sales to investors increases with age.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026

“If key departures slow iteration, cause quality regressions, or reduce community trust, the open-source flywheel weakens.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Former audio programmer Isaac Hudd says "mistakes started piling up" during crunch, and says "regressions", where one team would fix a bug only for another to unwittingly bring it back to life, became increasingly common.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

The flight instructors mistakenly attributed the pilots’ deterioration to their praise of them, and likewise the pilots’ improvement to their criticism; both, however, were simply regressions to the more likely mean performance.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos