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Trina has consistently offered rap anthems for women who refuse to acquiesce to retrograde and, frankly, sexist expectations for how women talk about their sexuality.
21 YEARS AFTER HER DEBUT, TRINA IS STILL ‘DA BADDEST’BRANDE VICTORIANMARCH 19, 2021ESSENCE.COMOne retrograde or timid step would open the eyes of men, and bring down ruin on the Pantamorphica.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSHe executes with speed, and even with ease, all direct motion; but he has no facility for oblique or retrograde motions.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONA nation cannot remain stationary; she must advance or retrograde.
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL 3 NO 3, MARCH 1863VARIOUSBut the retrograde movement towards the gate had begun—as unreasoningly, perhaps as blindly, as the simultaneous anger.
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLOn the 10th my army, resuming its retrograde movement, crossed to the north side of Cedar Creek.
THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, COMPLETEGENERAL PHILIP HENRY SHERIDANThe idea was so curiously retrograde and artificial, that it could not long hold up against the force of the current.
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONOut of that time, during three months and two long vacations I have made but a retrograde course.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY, VOLUME 3, NO. 1, APRIL, 1851VARIOUS(p. 183) The lines were quickly formed to carry it out, and the rest of the retrograde march went on with great steadiness.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANEThe iconoclast of to-day is full of scorn for patriotism, which he holds the most retrograde of emotions.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHERSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO RETROGRADE
- adulterate
- alloy
- be worse for wear
- become worse
- break
- corrode
- corrupt
- crumble
- debase
- debilitate
- decline
- decompose
- degrade
- deprave
- depreciate
- descend
- disimprove
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- ebb
- fade
- fail
- fall apart
- flag
- go downhill
- go to pieces
- go to pot
- go to the dogs
- hit the skids
- impair
- injure
- languish
- lapse
- lessen
- lose it
- lose quality
- lower
- mar
- pervert
- regress
- retrograde
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- rot
- sink
- skid
- slide
- spoil
- undermine
- vitiate
- weaken
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- going to pot
- going to the dogs
- hitting the skids
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- ease off
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- expire
- fade
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- fizzle out
- go bad
- go downhill
- halt
- lapse
- let up
- lose power
- melt away
- moderate
- molder
- pass
- peter out
- rankle
- recede
- retrograde
- rot
- run down
- run low
- run out
- sink
- slacken
- stop
- subside
- vanish
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- broke down
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- moderated
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- receded
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- rotted
- sank
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- went downhill
- wilted
- wore away
- abates
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- crumbles
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- ends
- expires
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- fizzles out
- goes bad
- goes downhill
- halts
- lapses
- lets up
- loses power
- melts away
- moderates
- molders
- passes
- peters out
- rankles
- recedes
- retrogrades
- rots
- runs down
- runs low
- runs out
- sinks
- slackens
- stops
- subsides
- vanishes
- wanes
- weakens
- wears away
- wilts
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