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Backward Movement Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is REGRESSION which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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noun

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

• the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

• returning to a former state

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noun

• the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

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adjective

• moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

• of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma

adjective satellite

• going from better to worse

• moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

verb

• move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

• move in a direction contrary to the usual one

• move back

• go back over

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

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The Guardian Quick05 Dec 2024 Down 9
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