retrogression

Example Sentences

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Patty Jeffrey, president of the American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment — which represents most industry staffing firms — said that among member companies, roughly 10,000 foreign nurses have been affected by the retrogression.

From Seattle Times

“It was a decade that was marked by economic retrogression and ideological struggles.”

From New York Times

In the 1970s, under Brezhnev, the feeling was not merely of no progress but of retrogression.

From Literature

This duplicity is, as the museum called it, part of the American paradox: a museum that represents both stagnancy and change, advancement and retrogression, black America and the rest.

From The New Yorker

If we’re going to do something about this appalling retrogression on race, we probably need to be radical on both ends.

From Seattle Times