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regress

verb as in return to earlier way of doing things

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Greyson was meeting all his milestones and speaking normally until age 2, when he started regressing.

"They have somehow managed to regress and have a weaker squad than they did last year," former Scotland striker Steven Thompson told Sportsound.

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Responding imperfectly in a moment of great stress doesn’t mean that this is a story designed to show how women fail each other, or how women are pitted against each other, or to regress feminism.

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Jones regressed and got benched—raising concerns that Belichick had mismanaged the young passer’s development.

To hear that word it feels like we've regressed and nothing's changed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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