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In the minds of some retrograde dweebs, representing these baddies with a woman who could play Barbie was sacrilege.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

The dreamy vistas of domestic arts, which may have once seemed frivolous, passé, even politically retrograde for some, become a source of deep allure for people of different political stripes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

She points out the ongoing Jupiter retrograde and urges participants to “let the parts that are inquisitive drive you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

To account for the planets’ bizarre behavior, Ptolemy added epicycles to his planetary clockwork: little circles within circles could explain the backward, or retrograde, motion of the planets.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Sometimes it is said that the high retrogrades, or backs off to the west, allowing the storm track to come down the coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Known in our dancers’ nomenclature as “The King and Queen,” it is built primarily on one basic theme with its inversions, reversals and retrogrades.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015

Or he might be overthrown and replaced by retrogrades who would have at their disposal the military wherewithal to engage once again in old thinking and old behavior.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of the opera's other themes, accompaniments and leitmotifs are derived from endlessly ingenious extrapolations, inversions, retrogrades and other variations of the original row.

From Time Magazine Archive

From a practical, useful running machine he retrogrades into something fit only for the scrap-heap.

From Keeping Fit All the Way by Walter Camp

Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whoever studies the history of the race from age to age and nation to nation finds the world has advanced and not retrograded by giving responsibility to the individual.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

The countenance of the young girl’s companion retrograded from its new-found favor to a more inexorable cast.

From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher

The poor nation had greatly retrograded since his day; even their state was not what it had been; under these circumstances it could not be expected that the world should soon produce another Scarborough Carroll.

From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson

So the Soldiers' Advancement Association retrograded in numbers to less than half, and then, as others not at the moment under guard took alarm, to less than a dozen.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

“Similar retrograding blocks in the past have been associated with periods of colder and wintry weather in the Eastern U.S.,” meteorologist John Homenuk wrote on Twitter.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

The four boys were looking for possible routes of escape when Red’s brother decided that in arbitration lay his salvation from this swiftly retrograding dilemma.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

My listeners found themselves, not thrown back into retrograding systems, but urged forward in the path of just and liberal reflection.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole

Only a few seconds did he spend thus when he began retrograding, like a crab.

From Through Apache Lands by Edward Sylvester Ellis

She continued to move on, though without knowing whether she were advancing or retrograding.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney