regressive

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ITEP, however, has named Washington among its most regressive states, where 20% of the population with the lowest incomes “pay three times as much of their income in taxes as the wealthiest 1%.”

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 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

It highlighted societal changes in Saudi Arabia that allowed edgy American comedians to perform in a country long dismissed as irredeemably puritanical and regressive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

"The regressive girl boss feel of Woman's World, and then the album not being great hasn't helped," he adds, pointing to rapper Doja Cat's success working with Dr. Luke without the same negative response.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

The other systems have degenerated to a greater or less degree, but such regressive changes are more than compensated for by the superior control exerted by the improved brain.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward