- present tense form of retrograde (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Sometimes it is said that the high retrogrades, or backs off to the west, allowing the storm track to come down the coast.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2021
Known in our dancers’ nomenclature as “The King and Queen,” it is built primarily on one basic theme with its inversions, reversals and retrogrades.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2015
Or he might be overthrown and replaced by retrogrades who would have at their disposal the military wherewithal to engage once again in old thinking and old behavior.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could goad the traditionalists beneath him, promote the "new thinkers," purge the retrogrades, and keep an eye out for obstructionism, sabotage, insurgency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, in your very ingenious dramatic effort, the interest not only stands still, but sometimes retrogrades.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
