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regression

[ri-gresh-uhn] / rɪˈgrɛʃ ən /


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"Martin's not going to say it, of course, but the club is in regression, the team is in regression," Sutton stated on Sky Sports.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has experienced a dramatic regression in play following his breakout 2025 season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Conditional logistic regression allowed them to compare changes within individual patients.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

“And because I think that the last ‘pen that he had, there was a little bit of regression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

I’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere, because I get answers to a lot of questions, but not to the most important question of all: How does Algernon’s regression affect the basic hypothesis of the experiment?

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Datadog’s strength revolves around observability, which is all about “providing context to the state of every part of the business including performance regressions, outages, or issues concerning security and compliance,” according to the company’s website.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 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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