Definition of "regressing" [regressing]

• Present participle of regress. (verb)

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• "He finishes the chapter by reassuring us that whatever civilization any race has attained it has attained independently and that we have, in fact, been progressing, rather than regressing from a higher previous level."
• "The way that the Ma government is moving is usually described as regressing backwards towards authoritarianism, but actually they are moving forward...... in the direction of Singapore."
• "Kansas actually does a pretty good job of disproving evolution: how else to explain a state regressing from the site of a symbolic victory for academic freedom to the most famous place in America that wants to dumb down the education its children receive?"