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How to pronounce retrogression in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms regress, regression, retroversion, reversion
Type of reversal
Derivation retrogress
Type Words
Synonyms degeneration
Type of shift, transformation, transmutation
Has types abiotrophy, cataplasia

Examples of retrogression

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People are abandoning cities to return to agriculture, a sure sign of social retrogression.
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Thus older soils are more vulnerable to the effects of induced retrogression and degradation.
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Brookite and anatase are typical polymorphs of rutile formed by retrogression of metamorphic rutile.
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Retrogression is often related to very old human practices.
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Despite the inevitability of soil retrogression and degradation, most soil cycles are long and productive.
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Without these safeguards a creeping retrogression would occur, nullifying the gains of security and stability.
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It is true that in two respects the work of al-Khwarizmi represented a retrogression from that of Diophantus.
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It further marks Venezuela's retrogression into a cheerless mobocracy in which egalitarian slogans mask strict authoritarian rule.
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The standard for VRA still requires that there is no retrogression in minority ability to select the candidates of their choice.
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More examples
  • Degeneration: passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
  • Regression: returning to a former state
  • (retrogressive) retrograde: going from better to worse
  • A deterioration or decline to a previous state; A return to a less complex condition
  • (RETROGRESSIVE) a mode of blastic conidiogenesis in which the short cylindrical segments of the conidiogenous cell differentiate into conidia; the conidiogenous cells becomes shorter during conidiation.
  • A Buddhist term that refers to one's rebirth after death on earth or one of the lower realms.
  • (or Retrograde Motion) - Movement of a weather system in a direction opposite to that of the basic flow in which it is embedded, usually referring to a closed low or a longwave trough which moves westward.
  • Sometimes a case that is current one month will not be current the next month. This occurs when the annual numerical limit has been reached. This usually happens near the end of a fiscal year (October 1 to September 30 of the next year). ...
  • Backward development. When an animal, as it approaches maturity, becomes less perfectly organised than might be expected from its early stages and known relationships, it is said to undergo a retrograde development or metamorphosis.