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Adjective
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Only then will folks like me want to vote for this regressive tax.—
Steve Glazer,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026 -
And sources of public funding can be brutally regressive, derived from taxes on items like lottery tickets, which are bought disproportionately by the poor.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Three frames from a video (below) showing a 70 kg climber ascending a 3.7 m vertical glass surface using a synthetic adhesion system with degressive load-sharing and gecko-inspired adhesives.—
Seriously Science,
Discover Magazine,
3 Dec. 2014
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“Decremental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decremental. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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