regress

Object

• tumor: Also, there was little evidence of acute inflammatory infiltration in regressing tumors.
• client: One a client regressed into the past by Ormond and the other, her past-life alter ego, a 19th century psychic investigator.
• bit: Let me regress a little bit and let you know why this little bit of braggadocio was put on paper.

Converse of object

• avoid: And avoid the potential infinite regress of symbolic meaning by being fully grounded in the real world.
• have: If from another, then we have an unsatisfactory infinite regress of explanations.
• involve: At some point the system and the meta-system might be indistinguishable, although this may involve a virtually infinite regress.
• suggest: Furthermore, the way in which all this is done suggests a mental regress into " big brother " thinking.

Preposition: into

childhood: You go into one memory inside the body and the client is regressed into childhood - the voice changes, they feel small.

Adjective modifier

• infinite: Mutual belief is defined in terms of an infinite regress of nested beliefs.
• vicious: Try to devise a way of preserving his insights while avoiding the vicious regresses to which he can give rise.
• endless: The nightmare of the ' rational ' mind is attempting to evaluate the outcome of the outcome of the outcome in endless regress.
• temporal: The second, which he terms the kalām argument, holds that an infinite temporal regress is impossible because an actual infinite is impossible.

Modifying Another Word

• spontaneously: This becomes necessary only if the disease has reached a certain, well defined stage, as the milder forms often regress spontaneously.
• back: When the " cured " Norman Osborn suddenly regressed back to insanity, he came looking for Parker.
• then: And while many autistic children show signs of autism from birth, some seem to develop normally but then regress after their first year.
• not: When problems are found the test rig is extended to attempt to cover previous problems and make sure that we do not regress.
• hypnotically: There have also been many instances when hypnotically regressed subjects have provided information they could not have acquired normally.

Possessives

experimenter: In what ways are chains of failures of technical fixes historically connected to chains of attempts to escape the experimenter's regress?

Used with why or when

when: And I began a test suite, because experience had shown that Autoconf has a pronounced tendency to regress when we change it.