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As a movie directed by a woman with two women at its center, “The Old Guard” goes against the often regressively macho conventions of the action genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2020

Most regressively Californian are the environmental soundscapes of Steve Halpern, 39, a New Age pioneer with 35 albums to his credit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Setting out from the present moment, I can move regressively to the preceding state of consciousness, to the penultimate, and so on.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James

He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of interindividual relations.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Secondly, it is properly the unconditioned alone that reason seeks in this serially and regressively conducted synthesis of conditions.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow