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She points out the ongoing Jupiter retrograde and urges participants to “let the parts that are inquisitive drive you.”

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Cubism was not only dominant in 1921, when Keck made his stylistically retrograde statue, but its genesis owes much to African art.

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"Once again, this is an abuse of power that characterises the regime's retrograde practices. The aim is to silence a dissenting voice," it said in a statement.

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The Republican position on women is slightly more cloaked, but no less retrograde.

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Increasingly, they seem comfortable with reskinning their retrograde ideas with the aesthetics of woo-woo instead of Christianity, so long as it serves the goal of crushing social progress.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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