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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retrogress.

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Examples

  • These were Mr. Grinnell and an urgent vacation in the Alps. When a man retrogresses to the Stone Age he typically brings three provisions.

    Prehistoric History Kevin Dickinson 2010

  • Their campaign retrogresses every single day that they use this strategy.

    Why Ayers case is risky for McCain-Palin 2008

  • That course bogs down, retrogresses or advances in the measure that revolutionary classes and its leaders abide by the laws that rule their destinies.

    MONCADA ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES 1973

  • However, when the DOS determines that the visas available for a certain category and/or country are issued faster than previously estimated, the cutoff date moves backward or "retrogresses."

    NYDN Rss Allan Wernick Local 2011

  • In fact, perhaps as a result of fewer and fewer people driving their own nails and mowing their own lawns as the society retrogresses further into the ridiculously class-conscious oligarchy of its own pre-Revolutionary beginnings,

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2010

  • Or more precisely, [Hilferding] retrogresses back to home base: the equilibrium of capitalist production.

    LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment 2008

  • If small and unsightly, it will become lofty, beautiful and verdant under the gardener’s training, whereas a tree bereft of his cultivation retrogresses daily, its fruit grows acrid and bitter as the trees of the jungle, or it may become entirely barren and bereft of its fruitage.

    The Promulgation of Universal Peace 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

  • If one half falls ill and retrogresses, shall the other who is strong, who hears the call of life, allow himself to be held back by duty? "

    The Precipice Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov 1851

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