retrograde

Example Sentences

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In Huntington Beach, a MAGA-majority city council is showing that conspiratorial, retrograde politics can still win in the county that made it an art form.

From Los Angeles Times

French media published some of the expulsion order, which said the imam had promoted a "retrograde, intolerant, and violent image of Islam, likely to encourage behaviour contrary to the values of the Republic".

From BBC

While the Guardian dismissed Johnson as "one of the most ill-fitting tentpole leads I can remember", IndieWire said the leading lady "does her best to save a hilariously retrograde Superhero".

From BBC

"One of the possible explanations for this is that most high-pressure minerals are unstable at high temperatures. Therefore, those formed during impact could have experienced a retrograde process."

From Science Daily

Americans are now embarked on what is likely to be one of the most demoralizing presidential elections ever, a retrograde campaign that will be largely divorced from any debate about the future perils facing humanity.

From Seattle Times