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

Some of the listed performers, including Bret Michaels, Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice, weren’t all that shocking given Trump’s retrograde pop music taste.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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

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

The heart of man beats on the same eternal springs; and whether he advances or retrogrades, he cannot escape out of the march of human thought.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Centuries have gone by and not one of these barren—centuries during which man remained stationary or retrograded into dense ignorance.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle

Nor is a change of views necessarily a reproach to a politician, even though he may have retrograded or gone wrong.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

But of one thing I am fairly confident:—I never really went backward, never seriously retrograded artistically.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

“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

The question with which I began this little talk—is Richard Strauss retrograding in his art?—may be answered by a curt negative.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

He discovered that the war party, instead of continuing westward, were retrograding and doubling on their own trail.

From Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis

To avoid retrograding in my narrative, I will just briefly mention, that the other three divisions met with a share of luck equally slender: not one of them found what they sought.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various