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regress

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


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

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Not that stars tell us much: A Journal study in 2017 showed that five-star funds often regress to being just average after winning the accolade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 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

"I am doing everything I can as his parent to protect his wellbeing, and I cannot agree to a placement that I believe would put him or others at risk, or where he would regress."

From BBC • Sep. 23, 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




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