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  • verb Present participle of retrogress.

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Examples

  • On the contrary, Mato said that, on its 50th anniversary, Nigeria seems to be retrogressing in virtually every major index of development.

    Analyst Sees Little to Celebrate on Nigeria's 50th Independence Day 2010

  • Now I felt myself retrogressing through time, returning to a life-choking farming fate that I thought I had left far behind me.

    The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 3 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009

  • Now I felt myself retrogressing through time, returning to a life-choking farming fate that I thought I had left far behind me.

    2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009

  • But increasingly more and more young girls, instead of retrogressing into Arab culture, are progressing into western culture.

    A Bangladeshi Bluestocking 2009

  • What a disgrace but this are all true where the Philippines was then second only to Japan in a not so distant past, but now fast retrogressing in the likes of Bangladesh and other poorer countries in Asia.

    The Philippines, then and now Nomadicasian 2007

  • Indeed, says Bury, the ancients generally believed that humanity was retrogressing as civilization became more sophisticated.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • Indeed, says Bury, the ancients generally believed that humanity was retrogressing as civilization became more sophisticated.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • Indeed, says Bury, the ancients generally believed that humanity was retrogressing as civilization became more sophisticated.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • Indeed, says Bury, the ancients generally believed that humanity was retrogressing as civilization became more sophisticated.

    Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

  • To the south of them the Picts remain savages, apparently defying the laws of Nature by neither progressing nor retrogressing.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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