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regress
verb as in return to earlier way of doing things
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Example Sentences
However, despite acknowledging successes and changes, Welsh women have raised concerns that equality is regressing.
And we definitely do not need to regress.
Lord Rose, who recently stepped down as Asda's chairman, told the BBC: "We have regressed in this country in terms of working practices, productivity and the country's wellbeing."
Some children might regress to an earlier stage of development, becoming afraid of going to school and leaving their parents.
Moving back with her parents had felt "weird" as she had moved into her childhood room, and meant she was in danger of regressing to teenage ways.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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