retrograde

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

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

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

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

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

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

This hypothesis, or speculation, is not without probability: since the bird of the barn-yard, instead of being an improvement, even in bulk, upon the wild species, is in reality a retrograded and inferior creature.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

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 former developed while the latter retrograded in the arts of civilization.

From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by James Edward Talmage

“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

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

The passing, retrograding days—a dozen to the second of Larry's consciousness.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

"You are not likely to have many followers in such a belief," said Charles; "we are all for progress now, not for retrograding."

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman