retrograde

"Once that ridge is unpinned, the glacier will continually retreat across a predominantly retrograde seafloor toward its next topographic high, the South Ridge."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

A bizarre hodgepodge of retrograde machismo and perfectly manicured nails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

As the scudding day passed overhead the dingy windows glowed and faded in ghostly retrograde.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

He could goad the traditionalists beneath him, promote the "new thinkers," purge the retrogrades, and keep an eye out for obstructionism, sabotage, insurgency.

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

Now, in your very ingenious dramatic effort, the interest not only stands still, but sometimes retrogrades.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So far from further broadening that broader view which Mr. Darwin reached as he grew older, his followers appear to have retrograded towards a more restricted view than he ever expressed.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer

In fact, cosmographical science in the general opinion retrograded instead of advancing.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake

The second way was conquest with incorporation, but without representation; and this lacking, the government retrograded and gradually became a despotism.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

Stump fields are today no novelty in Illinois, and farming has not retrograded.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess

“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

From the nature of his food alone he has been long retrograding in physical capability, and, of course, energy of mind.

From Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration by Jasper W. Rogers

We reform now our Universities, then after a period our Secondary School system, and so we proceed, advancing here, retrograding there, but of education as an organically connected whole we have no thought.

From The Children: Some Educational Problems by Alexander Darroch

I am very glad this happened to you instead of an uneventful summer on the farm and retrograding, I am afraid.

From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Amanda M. Douglas