backslide

And perhaps the best part of all: Nobody can call me a slob again—if I don’t backslide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

In January, MPs on the Health Committee described the backslide as "national disgrace".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

In the silence that follows most of the converts backslide.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

To encourage a better Uber, it’s time to play the only card you’ve got: If it backslides or otherwise fails to live up to the promises it’s making now, stop using Uber.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2017

Indeed, it is rather pleasant to see that in his alarm about "the enemy," in 1673, he backslides into the second person plural.

From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell

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

In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated more than $5 billion of his $15-billion climate package toward drought response and water resilience — but in the same month, Californians backslid in their efforts to conserve water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Also that decade, allied countries accounted for only 5 percent of global decreases — they backslid very little.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

But what was hailed by the Justice Department in the 1970s as a “quantum leap forward from traditional jails” eventually backslid into one.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

The taffy cast to her hair had backslid to ashes of roses.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Fannie Hurst

Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long ago the Doctor had given over open expostulation; every such talk seemed to evoke a new and more airy and more adventurous demon in the backslidden Reuben.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

It seemed to me I was backslidden and that Brother Nelson and Brother Tubbs were going to deal with me at the meeting and tell me so.

From Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag by S. O. Susag

She had a horrid suspicion that her lover had backslidden, that he meant to return to his hermit life on the Island, and was here now to jilt her.

From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily

One day about the middle of the meeting this young man came to the altar, and when asked what was the trouble he said that he had backslidden.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

At a time of societal fracture and backsliding, “Liberation” offered audiences the opportunity to commune collectively with a watershed movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

His husband is still paying off his old credit-card debt, and they are constantly trying to cut down on expenses to avoid backsliding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Ours is an age not only of cultural backsliding but also of people uprooting themselves for the sake of safety and reinvention.

From Salon ● May 20, 2026

A former adviser to Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said Tuesday he will run against him in April elections, denouncing "democratic backsliding" in the small but highly strategic Horn of Africa nation.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 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