Lost
Both words in one sentence
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We're only winning because we're basically fighting a lost/regressed tribe of cavemen.
Source: Insufficiently Advanced Alien - Throughout the series, many lost colonies are being rediscovered, many of which have regressed to barbarism and forgotten their origins.
Source: Lost Colony - Well, not so much lost as technologically regressed and out of contact with the wider galaxy.
Source: Literature / Liaden Universe
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Regressed and Lost. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lost/regressed
Lost & Regressed. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lost/regressed>.
Regressed or Lost. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lost/regressed.
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