as in reverted
to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level the quality of research at the university lab has begun to retrogress since the massive budget cuts went into effect
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Recent Examples of retrogressed This annual limit, and the intense global demand has created significant back logs, particularly for applicants from India and China, whose EB-2 priority dates have continually retrogressed. —
Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026
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In 2017, Neverland Ranch was reverted back to its original name of Sycamore Valley Ranch, per Billboard.— Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
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The third, introduced on April 16, added a system prompt instruction capping the model’s responses at 25 words between tool calls—a change Anthropic said measurably hurt coding quality before it was reverted four days later.— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
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When the boyfriend returned, Delgado-Cordoba got back in the driver’s seat and drove away with the woman still inside.— Katie Langford, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
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Then all the old problems returned.— Dan Woike, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Retrogressed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/retrogressed. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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