Example Sentences

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You just keep moving the goalposts and raising the bar, because if you don't do that, then you will regress, go backwards.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2022

Yet now there are only fears that they will regress.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2021

Kelly de la Torre worries that Trevor will regress, even as she wants his team to take the time they need to prepare for some distance learning.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2020

Maybe everything really will continue on in the same positive direction, or maybe the team will regress.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2017

The risk for the Yankees is that Castro, still only 25 years old, will regress and underperform his salaries through 2019.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015