backslide
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More than 3.7 million people are internally displaced in Myanmar, according to the United Nations, and more one in five people face acute food insecurity amid a national backslide into poverty.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
How did public health backslide so hard that it undid decades of progress—and is there any hope we can get back on track?
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
As someone who has spent a fair chunk of their adult life being probably too concerned with the proper lighting for every occasion, I can’t stand to see this backslide go any further.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
And that does feel like a bit of a backslide because of the constriction of this industry right now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Or, Can a church as a body backslide?
From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
There is confrontation and denial, improvements followed by backslides.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025
Now after nearly two decades of reforms, backslides into scandals, and close watch from activists and the feds, Oakland can enter a probationary period.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2022
Those profits are made on paper not set in stone, but that doesn’t reduce the sense of loss as a portfolio backslides.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022
They’ve also had as many backslides as moments of progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
He has religion real bad for a couple of weeks, and then he backslides.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
But with ChatGPT, I backslid into all talking and very little listening, because with AI, you don’t really have to listen with much care, and you can absolutely make everything about you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
The lengthy point streak got them back in wild-card contention, but the Kraken backslid last week, in no small part because of injury and illness.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
He said he has focused on paying down the LAPD’s bank of unpaid overtime hours — an effort that backslid in a huge way during the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
Also that decade, allied countries accounted for only 5 percent of global decreases — they backslid very little.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
“Heavy, herself,” pursued Mary Cox, “Belle and Lluella, who have all backslid from the Upedes, and yourself.”
From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Emerson, Alice B.
Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her father, at one time saved and earnest about the souls of others, had grown cold and backslidden, and now never even went near a Meeting.
From Catherine Booth — a Sketch by Duff, Colonel Mildred
If we did, everybody reckoned that they had backslidden.
From The First Soprano by Hitchcock, Mary
He saw his duty plainly,—if Ellen had "backslidden," he must give her another trial.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Harte, Bret
Meanwhile, there was nothing left for him to do but to appoint a committee of sinners to attend to the stewards' duties until these should be reclaimed from their backslidden state.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra
But both of these instances of democratic backsliding are “historically grounded in the particular situation” of their respective countries, he emphasized.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
Even Grand Rapids is at risk of backsliding, and some parts of the city are struggling with too little opportunity and too few strong families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The landlocked Central Asian country was once seen as the most democratic in the region, but Japarov has been criticised for backsliding since he came to power after a revolution in 2020.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
This backsliding flies in the face of how much progress has been made to stop people from dying needlessly.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
Brother Fowles had been in Kilanga six years, which really when you think about it is long enough for about any kind of backsliding you could name.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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