Example Sentences

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Greyson was meeting all his milestones and speaking normally until age 2, when he started regressing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

But Kidman isn’t debasing herself or regressing just for the sick sight of it all.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

If you believe in those figures regressing to the mean - and I do - then "he's due".

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024

The performance on the field is regressing, not progressing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2024

“Barb” is what I was called as a child, and still am by my siblings, and I sense that at some level I’m regressing.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich