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

This contrast is a good deal more dramatically compelling than the somewhat overwrought psychological drama that exerts a regressive pull on “anthropology.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

So we called the mode of expression of the dream-work the archaic or regressive.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund