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Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stump fields are today no novelty in Illinois, and farming has not retrograded.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton

The Yin dynasty adopted the rules and manners of the Hi� line of kings, and it is possible to tell whether it retrograded or advanced.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

The second way was conquest with incorporation, but without representation; and this lacking, the government retrograded and gradually became a despotism.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

But of one thing I am fairly confident:—I never really went backward, never seriously retrograded artistically.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise