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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of retrogress.

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Examples

  • The Third Preference (professionals and skilled workers) of Employment-Based Petitions (Labor Certification) "retrogressed" (or moved backwards) from March 1, 2003 to unavailable.

    Home 2009

  • The Third Preference (professionals and skilled workers) of Employment-Based Petitions (Labor Certification) "retrogressed" (or moved backwards) from March 1, 2003 to unavailable.

    Home 2009

  • The Third Preference (professionals and skilled workers) of Employment-Based Petitions (Labor Certification) "retrogressed" (or moved backwards) from March 1, 2003 to unavailable.

    Home 2009

  • This is a fear of the same trap which Buck constantly sensed in his “dream visions” of the primitive state to which he eventually retrogressed.

    Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

  • In those politically sensitive areas, however, the Karzai regime not only did not deliver on the 2006 pledges but has even retrogressed on many of the targets.

    U.S. Seeks To Limit Warlords In Karzai Cabinet Hanna Ingber Win 2010

  • In those politically sensitive areas, however, the Karzai regime not only did not deliver on the 2006 pledges but has even retrogressed on many of the targets.

    U.S. Seeks To Limit Warlords In Karzai Cabinet 2010

  • And according to this scale, Lorenz despised parasites: If one judges the adapted forms of the parasites according to the amounts of retrogressed information, one finds a loss of information that coincides with and completely confirms the low estimation we have of them and how we feel about them.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • That's not undermined by the fact that we may have retrogressed in other areas.

    "A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong, and they are being unfair to her." Ann Althouse 2009

  • And according to this scale, Lorenz despised parasites: If one judges the adapted forms of the parasites according to the amounts of retrogressed information, one finds a loss of information that coincides with and completely confirms the low estimation we have of them and how we feel about them.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • And according to this scale, Lorenz despised parasites: If one judges the adapted forms of the parasites according to the amounts of retrogressed information, one finds a loss of information that coincides with and completely confirms the low estimation we have of them and how we feel about them.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

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