regress
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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
On the night of the sleepover, she and Shanti regress easily to twelve-year-old behavior.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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If the U.S. regresses in friendlies with Ecuador and Australia next month, the angst and despair that have hovered over the team most of the year will return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
Their presence ensures that if the Cougars’ front seven regresses — the linebacking unit was hit hard by attrition — the scope will be limited.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
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
But Atlanta, and its know-nothing Liberty Media ownership, seems unaware that analytics predict its five-man rotation will not have anybody with an ERA under 4.00 as everybody regresses toward previous career performance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2019
The pleasurable feeling-tone which normally belongs to ministering to others, regresses in the nervous invalid to the infantile satisfaction of being ministered unto.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
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
The study, which analyzed 109 of the top English-language theatrical film releases of 2025, found that racially diverse and gender diverse representation regressed despite reaching highs in previous years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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
The Rams have regressed a bit on defence and there's a significant special teams advantage to Seattle.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
Reviewing the data on Algernon: although he is still in his physical youth, he has regressed mentally.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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
Greyson was meeting all his milestones and speaking normally until age 2, when he started regressing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Maybe I undersold Polinger as “Raw” 101, or maybe Ducournau is regressing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Moving back with her parents had felt "weird" as she had moved into her childhood room, and meant she was in danger of regressing to teenage ways.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
“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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