retrograde
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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
Although YouTube has community standards forbidding “pornography, incitement to violence, harassment, or hate speech,” calling those open to interpretation in our retrograde cultural atmosphere is putting it mildly.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2025
GLAAD, the advocacy group, declared that “Emilia Pérez” presented “a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
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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