regress

Example Sentences

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Mississippi’s fourth-graders will again regress toward the mean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 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

She said one of her constituents had told her how her daughter had "started to regress" since her last therapy programme had ended, while some providers had resorted to fundraising to continue to offer support.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2025

Some children might regress to an earlier stage of development, becoming afraid of going to school and leaving their parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan