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

This internal war between wanting to regress and disappear, to try to gain control or just make peace and be present, could become a dramatic conflict if each instinct was embodied by a different person.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

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