regressive
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Another issue with the tax break is that it’s considered regressive by some experts, meaning it mostly benefits those with higher incomes.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
And Chris Birt of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says the "elephant in the room" is what he calls the lack of any serious plans to reform the "regressive" council tax.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Although the manosphere content often cited by media and scholars is not necessarily racially regressive, it is distinctly gender regressive, and that appears to be taking a toll on Gen Z.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
The dream-work therefore puts the thoughts through a regressive treatment, that is, one that retraces the steps in their development.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
Vocabulary lists containing regressive
"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury
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Government and the Economy, Sections 3–5
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State and Local Governments, Sections 5–6
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