retrogression

Example Sentences

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“Because these states know that if they couldn’t disprove retrogression, it would go down in flames.”

From New York Times

The fight to defend America’s openness, renewal and unity against Trump’s walls, retrogression and fracture is inseparable from the struggle to save the world from the creeping autocracy of the 21st century.

From New York Times

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

If we’re going to do something about this appalling retrogression on race, we probably need to be radical on both ends.

From Seattle Times

Many Americans regard Trump as a principal instigator of the country’s retrogression on race.

From Washington Post