regress
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"Its the perfect time" for South Korea to leverage its strategic advantage and make investments as "the AI boom might die down" and demand could regress, he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Instead, the cells appeared to regress into a more juvenile form.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
Not that stars tell us much: A Journal study in 2017 showed that five-star funds often regress to being just average after winning the accolade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Yet if these growth rates regress to the mean, as they have in the past, value stocks are quite likely to outperform growth stocks over the next several years.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
“We must leave. Now. I should warn you that my mother may return momentarily. If I see her again. I'll regress horribly. We must dash.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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The musical trio regresses into that awkwardness of knowing they’ve shared a special moment, but there isn’t much left to say to each other besides so long and good luck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Alex Ovechkin the only thing still worth watching as team regresses to statistical mean.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Some Black Southern Baptist pastors say they are tired of watching the country progress on racial justice while their own religious community tepidly advances or even regresses on the topic.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2020
As the movie’s biggest name, Vaughn regresses to his second-rate deadpan comedy roles of old, forcing his way through a comedically constipated performance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
The pleasurable feeling-tone which normally belongs to ministering to others, regresses in the nervous invalid to the infantile satisfaction of being ministered unto.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
But his recovery regressed, and he was shut down from throwing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
But at Dilley, she regressed behaviorally, wetting herself after years without accidents and begging to breastfeed again despite being 6 years old.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
One year after winning 10 games with one of the league’s most potent offenses, they’ve regressed in pretty much every way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
To hear that word it feels like we've regressed and nothing's changed.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
You've probably regressed completely by now, living in that substandard old house with only your mother for company.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Greyson was meeting all his milestones and speaking normally until age 2, when he started regressing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
However, despite acknowledging successes and changes, Welsh women have raised concerns that equality is regressing.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
But Kidman isn’t debasing herself or regressing just for the sick sight of it all.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024
The performance on the field is regressing, not progressing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024
“Barb” is what I was called as a child, and still am by my siblings, and I sense that at some level I’m regressing.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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