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regress as in:  regressed instead of progressed

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    Kool-Aid seemed a little too regressive.  (source)
    regressive = returning to a former (less advanced) state
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    But outsiders have their supporting role to play, too, in part by shining a spotlight on these regressive attitudes in an effort to break the taboo that often surrounds them.  (source)
    regressive = less advanced
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    As we might expect, Henry IV, Part II provides a means of measuring Harold's growth, which is actually a sort of regression into the most repugnant of human impulses.  (source)
    regression = returning to a former (less advanced) state
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    They had a special language: regression, acting out, hostility, withdrawal, indulging in behavior.  (source)
    regression = returning to a former (less advanced) state
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    ...the city in 1871 reversed the river's direction... To the engineers' surprise, however, prolonged rains routinely caused the Chicago River to regress and again pour dead cats and fecal matter into the lake, and in such volume that tendrils of black water reached all the way to the intake cribs of the city water system.  (source)
    regress = return to a former (less advanced) state
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    I've regressed to the damsel in distress.  (source)
    regressed = returned to a former (less advanced) state
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    If you see him regressing into that state of mind-and you'll know it when you see it-stop him.  (source)
    regressing = returning to a former (less advanced) state
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    To the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    I appeal to your infantile regressions.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    He reflected that the progressive extension of the field of individual development and experience was regressively accompanied by a restriction of the converse domain of interindividual relations.†  (source)
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    On the other hand, this kind of honesty was anything but a sign of regression.  (source)
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    That without his reformist spirit, his tolerance of small acts of progress, things would regress, and all the liberties promised at KAEC would be ground into the sand.  (source)
    regress = returned to a former (less advanced) state
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    Since Thanksgiving, things have regressed between St. Clair and me.†  (source)
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X can cause Y; Y can cause X; or it may be that some other factor is causing both X and Y. A regression alone can't tell you whether it snows because its cold, whether it's cold because it snows, or if the two just happen to go together.  (source)
regression = the process of finding any relationship between variables
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