18 example sentences using regress.
Regress used in a sentence
Regress in a sentence as a noun
Even when your own code doesn't regress, the platform beneath you may do so.
If it were just luck, the “supers” would regress to the mean: yesterday’s champs would be today’s chumps.
When your actions have little effect on the outcome, your actions tend to regress to the mean.
The second solution will improve in some ways and possibly regress in some ways.
You'd think you'd regress against local temperature right?
No matter what shopping choices you make, workers' rights in these countries will never regress to those of a third world country.
Or how about the question of which temperature series to regress against?
In countries that have already fought the hard fight for worker rights there are laws in place to ensure workers' rights don't regress.
By your standard, we can never progress at all, and must eventually regress to a primitive state.
Regress in a sentence as a verb
Most of them actually forcibly regress their proficiency because they find they get treated better.
For all of the successes reddit's voting system has had, its key vulnerability is a tendency to regress to the LCD.
Codebases evolve in many ways: They advance by leaps and bounds, they stagnate, they regress, they sputter along, they bloat--often all at the same time.
This dramatically reduces the chance of the three 20s in a row scenario and would very quickly regress to the mean, just like people expect.
If you're going to make a bold prediction about Meteor killing Rails be prepared for some heat - your responses to that heat may progress or regress the argument.
At what point do a certain subset of people simply regress to becoming a commodity that is monitored and maintained like cattle on Big USA Ranch?
Devoting a small fraction of that time to submitting regression tests instead would dramatically decrease the number of problems in the future.
It's a far step from suggesting a causal link between two constituencies and what Thiel views as political regress and advocating the disenfranchisement of women.
With the profiling and telemetry tools and infrastructure, the Firefox team has built a foundation that will ensure future releases do not regress memory usage and overall browser snappiness.
Regress definitions
the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
returning to a former state
See also: regression reversion retrogression retroversion
go back to a statistical means
get worse or fall back to a previous condition
See also: retrograde retrogress
go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
See also: relapse lapse recidivate retrogress