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As you might guess, regress is the opposite of progress. So if a disease regresses, that's generally a good thing, but in most other ways we prefer not to regress. If someone's mental state has been improving, we hope that person won't start to regress; and when a nation's promising educational system begins to regress, that's a bad sign for the country's future. Economists often distinguish between a progressive tax and a regressive tax; in a progressive tax, the percentage that goes to taxes gets larger as the amount of money being taxed gets larger, while in a regressive tax the percentage gets smaller.
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Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
The Orioles’ rotation began to regress in June, losing Kyle Bradish, Danny Coulombe and others to injury.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
What led to the Bears regressing so hard this week?
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Regress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regress. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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regress
intransitive verb
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