Example Sentences

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“I think we were regressing over a period of time.”

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2017

In case a couple of losses last week made you fear the Washington Wizards were regressing to their rickety, early-season form, they righted themselves Tuesday night in the most impressive way they possibly could.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2017

“If we were regressing, or we weren’t moving forward, if there weren’t so many positive things, I think it would become a bigger issue than it was, or is,” Bielema said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2014

NNE Felipe Carrillo Puerto on August 15 had slightly enlarged gonads, which probably were regressing.

From Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula by Klaas, Erwin E.

The specimen from Tenom was taken in a bird net set in a grass-scrubland situation; the testes were regressing.

From Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 by Thompson, Max C.