Definition of "retrogrades" []

• Plural form of retrograde. (noun)

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• "Every 18 months Venus retrogrades for about 40 days."
• "Otherwise we'll be hearing how the Middle Passage justifies blacks performing less well than whites in public schools until about 2200 A.D. -- by which time the Chinese will probably have colonized Alpha Centauri, leaving both whites and blacks in the former U.S. to subsist on a "reservation" for technological retrogrades."
• "Every innovation in the sport of cycling has been met with a predictable chorus of "there goes the sport!" from the usual grumpy retrogrades."