retrogression
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The same patterns—significant improvement in the first two-thirds of the 20th century, followed by less improvement or even retrogression in later periods—can likewise be detected in black labor-force participation, incomes and homeownership rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Patty Jeffrey, president of the American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment — which represents most industry staffing firms — said that among member companies, roughly 10,000 foreign nurses have been affected by the retrogression.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
“It was a decade that was marked by economic retrogression and ideological struggles.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
This duplicity is, as the museum called it, part of the American paradox: a museum that represents both stagnancy and change, advancement and retrogression, black America and the rest.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2019
In the 1970s, under Brezhnev, the feeling was not merely of no progress but of retrogression.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
