retrograde
Example Sentences
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The dreamy vistas of domestic arts, which may have once seemed frivolous, passé, even politically retrograde for some, become a source of deep allure for people of different political stripes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
That’s supposed to be the joke: Che getting away with such retrograde takes.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2024
Since 2019, the condition has had an official name: retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction, also known as “abelchia” or “no-burp syndrome.”
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024
If science suggests Mercury retrograde may not have any bearing on our lives, why do so many people still turn to the stars for answers?
From BBC • Aug. 3, 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
Vocabulary lists containing retrograde
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Spinnin' Around
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