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The phrase "are retrograde" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing movement, progress, or conditions that are regressive or backward in nature, often in relation to planets in astrology or other phenomena.
Example: "The planets are retrograde this month, which is believed to affect communication and decision-making."
Alternatives: "are regressive" or "are moving backward".
Dictionary
are retrograde
verb
To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
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Many works, however, are retrograde to the point of silliness.
Writer says that the magazine, published in Santa Barbara, Ca., presents ideas which are unpopular because they are"retrograde drivel".
The Church's views on sex in general are retrograde and damaging to it as an institution.
Cell-surface BG-tagged proteins that are transported to trans-Golgi/TGN membranes (i.e., that are retrograde cargoes) are thereby covalently captured by the SNAP-tag fusion protein.
QUESTION FROM GUEST: The decline of Mass attendance in Ireland, your presumption to say the Church's views on sex are retrograde.
The fact that most of the satellites' orbits are retrograde and eccentric speaks volumes about their origins: They had to have come from elsewhere, and been captured by the planets at some point.
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∼20% would be COPI vesicles containing only Golgi resident enzymes that are retrograde-directed, needed in any model to maintain the steady-state distribution of resident Golgi enzymes in a dynamic equilibrium.
"The iPad is retrograde.
The second Russia is retrograde.
Much of this is retrograde.
The third motion is retrograde motion.
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