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Free sign upThe phrase "a regression to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a return to a previous state or condition, often implying a decline or deterioration.
Example: "The recent policy changes have led to a regression to outdated practices that hinder progress."
Alternatives: "a return to" or "a backslide to".
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There will be a regression to the mean.
In old age there is a regression to childhood, of course.
Instead, there are business disappointments, debts, and marrying down — a regression to the mean.
Then came the 2014 season, a regression to 9-7, and a 1-5 stort to 2015.
She thinks it represents a regression to his earlier radicalism.
Following a regression to around 22 m b.s.l.l
Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, sneered at Pompeo's speech, calling it a "regression to old habits" by a bullying superpower.
Is this the fall that Sornette and company were predicting or just a coincidence, a regression to the mean?
The underlying idea that there are discrete areas for different tasks is indeed neo-phrenology, and, intellectually, represents a regression to the nineteenth century.
As Specter mentions earlier in the piece, there is frequently a regression to means, and the alleviation of his chest pain could have been entirely coincidental.
Drawing back into self-defense and self-interest need not mean a regression to helplessness.
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