regressive
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And Chris Birt of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says the "elephant in the room" is what he calls the lack of any serious plans to reform the "regressive" council tax.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
The draft law reduces severance pay, allows payments in kind and restricts vacation usage, among other proposals that the General Confederation of Labor considers "regressive."
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
Although the manosphere content often cited by media and scholars is not necessarily racially regressive, it is distinctly gender regressive, and that appears to be taking a toll on Gen Z.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
The regressive search of analysis for a determining principle is Invention; the forward progress of synthesis from the simple elements seeking for the multiplicity of the single one is Construction.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
Vocabulary lists containing regressive
"The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury
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Government and the Economy, Sections 3–5
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State and Local Governments, Sections 5–6
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