regressive

Example Sentences

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Hassett spoke after Trade Representative Jamieson Greer contended on air on Tuesday that tariffs are not regressive.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 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

It highlighted societal changes in Saudi Arabia that allowed edgy American comedians to perform in a country long dismissed as irredeemably puritanical and regressive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The director describes the island's feudal way of life as deceptively safe but ultimately regressive – something Spike comes to realise.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025

Now, these two questions and answers exhibit the law of the work, i.e. the principle which determined its form, but precisely in the inverse or regressive order.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various