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regress

[ri-gres, ree-gres] / rɪˈgrɛs, ˈri grɛs /


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"Its the perfect time" for South Korea to leverage its strategic advantage and make investments as "the AI boom might die down" and demand could regress, he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Instead, the cells appeared to regress into a more juvenile form.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

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

The regent was loath to have me visit Qunu, thinking I would regress and fall into bad company back in my old village.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

He has an unusually poor home run to fly ball rate, a stat that typically regresses to the mean over large sample sizes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

That can make you comfortable sticking around even if performance regresses.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021

As the movie’s biggest name, Vaughn regresses to his second-rate deadpan comedy roles of old, forcing his way through a comedically constipated performance.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

Beneath the myriad patinas of culture, there is a fixed human nature that neither improves nor regresses.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019

Since the dream regresses to this stage, it seems to have made apparent the evil that lies in us.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

On the contrary, this return to “A Different World” simultaneously reminds us of how far TV has regressed since the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

But his recovery regressed, and he was shut down from throwing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Do Williams run the risk of losing one or both drivers given how far they have regressed since last year?

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

But at Dilley, she regressed behaviorally, wetting herself after years without accidents and begging to breastfeed again despite being 6 years old.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

You've probably regressed completely by now, living in that substandard old house with only your mother for company.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

You didn’t need nine hours of talk radio to absorb it: These Patriots were overrated, these Patriots were regressing, these Patriots were staring at a season they could be worse than the freaking Jets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

More than two decades after these aired, we’ve swerved between an age of unattainable thinness being pushed as a cultural ideal and a time of healthy-at-any-size body positivity from which we’re slowly regressing.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Greyson was meeting all his milestones and speaking normally until age 2, when he started regressing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

If you believe in those figures regressing to the mean - and I do - then "he's due".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024

“Barb” is what I was called as a child, and still am by my siblings, and I sense that at some level I’m regressing.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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