How to Use regress in a Sentence

regress

1 of 2 noun
  • Someone could get hurt, or regress.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Offensive woes may not be new but did the bullpen regress from last year?
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
  • When their aunt and uncle are over, the kids’ own manners regress.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Without Hart, the Knicks regress.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Are they all destined to regress in the second year of their careers?
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 Oct. 2020
  • There is such a thing as regress, for which the evidence is all too ample.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Now let’s turn to physics, in which the problem of infinite regress is deeper.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Gardner seemed to regress a little last season and said his play wasn’t up to standards.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Which is to regress in time, to invade childhood or injustice.
    — Ilana Luna, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • Herbert broke rookie records and looked like there will be no regress in his first game of 2021.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • If the Panthers were to regress, how could that be viewed as promising or successful?
    — Mike Kaye september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But when schools shut down, Michelle O’Neal saw Janae regress in reading and math.
    — Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • That, and the team appeared to regress on the defensive side of the ball in 2025.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • If a few teams regress and the defense continues to get better, the Tigers might be in business.
    — Usa Today Sports Network, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The great dream of the Enlightenment was progress; the great dread of epidemic is regress.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Even if Drew Brees regresses or gets hurt, the running game can carry the offense.
    — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 1 May 2018
  • Hachimura and Avdija regress while Kyle Kuzma fails to live up to his contract.
    — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • There will be an ebb and flow of performances during the next three months as teams grow in experience or regress due to injuries or poor play.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Chicago could regress depending on its defensive turnover creation.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • Kaepernick's play started to regress in 2014 and he got hurt halfway through the next season and lost his starting job.
    — Josh Dubow, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2022
  • There’s also something stunted about Anderson’s eternal regress to age twelve.
    — Christian Lorentzen, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Some have called for a special counsel to investigate the special counsel, but that way lies infinite regress.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The defending world champions were appearing to regress, if anything.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 13 July 2021
  • Having each side’s fact-checkers checked by the other side’s fact-checkers could lead to an infinite regress toward an uncertain truth.
    — Stephen J. Ceci, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2020
  • But city officials say recent strong performance of the stock market makes the city’s pension outlook more likely to improve than regress.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Over the season’s first quarter, the Premier League has appeared to regress, stylistically, from a peak of some five years ago.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Aubrey Bellia has watched her son, who is autistic, regress while away from Cartwright's developmental preschool program.
    — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 10 June 2020
  • Venezuela remains the most dramatic case of democratic regress in Latin America.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Losing that type of talent would cause most defenses to regress, but the Cougars have maintained a similar level of production.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Losing access to care, parents and providers said, could cause kids to regress and would require more intensive care or costly interventions later on.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026

regress

2 of 2 verb
  • The patient is regressing to a childlike state.
  • Their bullpen was lights out, but a bullpen is bound to regress.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Any player can regress year-to-year.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Even so, in the time since, her sleep hasn’t regressed.
    — Ellen O’Brien, SELF, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That number needs to regress next season.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Smith’s play has regressed over the past two seasons.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
  • Worse, those young players who starred in ‘24 seemed to regress.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Avoid the temptation to regress to the old way of doing things.
    — Jeanne Hardy, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Why do so many players regress when the plane lands in San Diego?
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2023
  • Since then, the team has regressed in the postseason.
    — Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Since then, the club has regressed in the postseason.
    — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This process can drag on for months while vital services are put on hold and students may regress.
    — John M. McLaughlin, WSJ, 5 July 2020
  • But with fewer games and some easy matchups, Fields' numbers won’t regress too far.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Jones showed promise his first season but has regressed in each of the last two seasons.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Which is to regress in time, to invade childhood or injustice.
    — Ilana Luna, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • They can also be grown from mature cells taken from you or me and regressed to a stem cell-like state.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2023
  • My mother, unable to cope with the trauma, regressed.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Every once in a while, a trend will deviate from its norm, but as time goes on, that trend will regress to its mean.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 5 May 2026
  • Or maybe Purdy will continue to regress.
    — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But yields regressed during the day after oil prices came off their highest levels.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • And Urías had regressed before missing six weeks with a hamstring strain.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • Sevyn Banks dealt with his fair share of ailments but also seemed to regress in terms of performance.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Counties used to regress only if their metrics fell in the range of a more restrictive tier for two straight weeks.
    — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • But as Saturday’s play showed, things have a way of evening out, regressing to the mean.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
  • Here’s a look at the areas where Tagovailoa has regressed.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Why has Tagovailoa regressed so much?
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
  • However, his production began to regress as the years went on.
    — Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Some authors, like Sebastian, refuse to believe the genre will regress.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Here's another piece by Hale about how volatile turnovers are as a statistic likely to regress to the mean.
    — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • And lately, the quarterback play has regressed.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025

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