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Until, that is, the play’s rather retrograde climax, when the playwright’s provocateur wildness goes limp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The dreamy vistas of domestic arts, which may have once seemed frivolous, passé, even politically retrograde for some, become a source of deep allure for people of different political stripes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

She points out the ongoing Jupiter retrograde and urges participants to “let the parts that are inquisitive drive you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

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

Or he might be overthrown and replaced by retrogrades who would have at their disposal the military wherewithal to engage once again in old thinking and old behavior.

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

Mr. Rockefeller never retrogrades; he has always advanced from the commencement.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice

Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plain truth is that during these years, except in the matter of bye and cross-post letters, the Post Office had retrograded rather than advanced.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert

Centuries have gone by and not one of these barren—centuries during which man remained stationary or retrograded into dense ignorance.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

It was a painful fact that the American community had retrograded in feeling and sentiment upon the subject of slavery.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.

Since the last great century—the thirteenth—Christendom had retrograded.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.

“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

From the nature of his food alone he has been long retrograding in physical capability, and, of course, energy of mind.

From Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration by Rogers, Jasper W.

I am very glad this happened to you instead of an uneventful summer on the farm and retrograding, I am afraid.

From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Douglas, Amanda M.

The question with which I began this little talk—is Richard Strauss retrograding in his art?—may be answered by a curt negative.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James