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re·treat·ing
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Retreating
of Retreat
Wikidata
Retreating
Glaciers that are currently shrinking in overall length (as measured over an elapsed span of time, usually years or decades, to date) due to melting or lack of snowfall at their source are considered to be retreating.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of retreating in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of retreating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of retreating in a Sentence
Symbolically it is retreating from an international presence.
Growth of Antarctic sea ice over the past few decades had been a relief, because it offset some of the rapid losses in the Arctic, now that sea ice is retreating in both hemispheres we should be concerned about our planet's temperature because it means less of the sun's heat is reflected back into space.
Previous research mostly looked at correlation : How much do you use Facebook and how depressed are you ? these studies show that people who use Facebook more are more depressed, but the problem is correlation doesn't create causation. We didn't know if Facebook was making people depressed or depressed people were retreating into Facebook.
If the various claims about masks and distancing and lockdowns and all the rest had produced demonstrably different results in the states where they were tried, we might argue that having a uniform approach would have been better. But the experience has been quite otherwise, and I think that's why you're beginning to see even governors who have been very supportive of restrictions and have implemented enforced restrictions are rapidly retreating from them.
Ebola was retreating and now it is likely to resurge.
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