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When Charlie Kirk was alive, his wife Erika had a retrograde role that was easy to understand.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The best, and most popular, of these was Norman Lear’s generation-gap sitcom “All in the Family,” starring Carroll O’Connor as retrograde bigot Archie Bunker, and Rob Reiner as his liberal son-in-law, Mike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

GLAAD, the advocacy group, declared that “Emilia Pérez” presented “a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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

There is no such possibility as a nation's standing still; it either retrogrades or progresses.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After a month Mars will be at M′ and the earth at E′, so that in its apparent motion Mars will have retrograded to M2.

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm

Some of the states during the last ten years have done nobly; others have evidently retrograded.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew

Of course there is no gain without a certain amount of loss, and while we have advanced in freedom we have retrograded in chivalry, deference, and courtesy.

From The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements by G. R. M. Devereux

It barely communicated with the others and retrograded towards barbarism without regularly organized government or other will than that of its respective tyrant and the free-lances who were his immediate followers.

From The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Ernesto Quesada

“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

"That's good," he said to himself, as he began retrograding, "they won't be expecting me—" At this juncture, one of the Indian horses, a short distance away, raised his head and whinnied.

From Through Apache Lands by Edward Sylvester Ellis

For two hundred years their power has been retrograding, and there is much reason now to believe that a total eclipse of their glory is soon to take place.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Still in retrograding, in a sense, the being becomes more suited to its circumstances—more capable therefore of happiness.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various