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regression

[ri-gresh-uhn] / rɪˈgrɛʃ ən /


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But if he does return to ties and suits as prime minister, it will only be a regression to his previous Westminster look.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

What looks like regression is often better understood as response.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2026

The baseline regression estimates the relationship between the average annual return on a house sale and the seller’s age.

From MarketWatch Apr. 13, 2026

When trends feel irreversible, regression to the mean becomes hard to imagine.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2026

Nemur: “I’m not afraid of regression any more. I’ve checked and rechecked everything. An interim report will do no harm. I feel sure nothing can go wrong now.”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

A simple regression showed that — including similar control variables as in prior regressions — the likelihood of private listings and sales to investors increases with age.

From MarketWatch Apr. 13, 2026

“If key departures slow iteration, cause quality regressions, or reduce community trust, the open-source flywheel weakens.”

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

They solve problems, explain steps, interpret statistical output and run regressions from uploaded data.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Former audio programmer Isaac Hudd says "mistakes started piling up" during crunch, and says "regressions", where one team would fix a bug only for another to unwittingly bring it back to life, became increasingly common.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2025

The flight instructors mistakenly attributed the pilots’ deterioration to their praise of them, and likewise the pilots’ improvement to their criticism; both, however, were simply regressions to the more likely mean performance.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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