regress
verb (used without object)
to move backward; go back.
regresses
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present tense formof regress (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Alex Ovechkin the only thing still worth watching as team regresses to statistical mean.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
As the movie’s biggest name, Vaughn regresses to his second-rate deadpan comedy roles of old, forcing his way through a comedically constipated performance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
A renowned gynecologist falls in love with a golf pro, as his wife regresses into childishness and his daughter prepares for her wedding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2020
But Atlanta, and its know-nothing Liberty Media ownership, seems unaware that analytics predict its five-man rotation will not have anybody with an ERA under 4.00 as everybody regresses toward previous career performance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2019
Without radioactivity to maintain it, the disease seems to be arrested immediately, and if the tissue damage has not gone too far, the tumor regresses and eventually disappears.
From The Star Lord by Boyd Ellanby
