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A bizarre hodgepodge of retrograde machismo and perfectly manicured nails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The best, and most popular, of these was Norman Lear’s generation-gap sitcom “All in the Family,” starring Carroll O’Connor as retrograde bigot Archie Bunker, and Rob Reiner as his liberal son-in-law, Mike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Weronika had suffered a rare complication - unusual retrograde amnesia.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

One of the ironies is that Tóth thinks the New World looks retrograde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

To account for the planets’ bizarre behavior, Ptolemy added epicycles to his planetary clockwork: little circles within circles could explain the backward, or retrograde, motion of the planets.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Sometimes it is said that the high retrogrades, or backs off to the west, allowing the storm track to come down the coast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Known in our dancers’ nomenclature as “The King and Queen,” it is built primarily on one basic theme with its inversions, reversals and retrogrades.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015

All of the opera's other themes, accompaniments and leitmotifs are derived from endlessly ingenious extrapolations, inversions, retrogrades and other variations of the original row.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could goad the traditionalists beneath him, promote the "new thinkers," purge the retrogrades, and keep an eye out for obstructionism, sabotage, insurgency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The variation alters progressively, increasing to a maximum in one deflexion; it then retrogrades till it points true north, which it progressively overpasses in the opposite deflexion to a maximum again.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor is a change of views necessarily a reproach to a politician, even though he may have retrograded or gone wrong.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Now I ask you candidly, have we retrograded in matters of taste or become less loyal to the true spirit of our Republican institutions?

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

Whoever studies the history of the race from age to age and nation to nation finds the world has advanced and not retrograded by giving responsibility to the individual.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper

Since the last great century—the thirteenth—Christendom had retrograded.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

“Similar retrograding blocks in the past have been associated with periods of colder and wintry weather in the Eastern U.S.,” meteorologist John Homenuk wrote on Twitter.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

The four boys were looking for possible routes of escape when Red’s brother decided that in arbitration lay his salvation from this swiftly retrograding dilemma.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

All that I could accomplish in the circumstances was that, instead of retrograding, he kept describing circles.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Only a few seconds did he spend thus when he began retrograding, like a crab.

From Through Apache Lands by Edward Sylvester Ellis

The passing, retrograding days—a dozen to the second of Larry's consciousness.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various