retrogress
Example Sentences
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Not to struggle is to retrogress, to collapse, to go revisionist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Premarital Murdock flagrantly contradicts his own anthropology and science when he advocates that we should retrogress thousands of years into the primitive "gland-motivated" society.
From Time Magazine Archive
We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold
That certain animals degenerate or retrogress in their development is susceptible of ready and familiar illustration.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
What had caused the man to retrogress Luis and Luise Obispo?
From Forget Me Nearly by Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)
