backslide

There’s a sister, too, played by Emily Meade, and her stone-faced appearance during a backslide in Cody’s recovery is a sign that with his past comes a lot he hasn’t faced yet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

But there; indeed I will not backslide into weak complaints again,” she added, compunctuously.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Sometimes, as “Back to the Future” cynically implies, it backslides or gets stuck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

He has religion real bad for a couple of weeks, and then he backslides.

From In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

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

In one of the Southern States lived a lady who had at different times professed to be saved, but as often backslid.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I had become lukewarm and in a backslidden state, but I was still convinced that it was my duty to join the Methodist church.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

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

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

My experience in regeneration was then clear and spiritual, and I had not backslidden.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

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

But the north African nation has since seen democratic backsliding and the re-imposition of aspects of authoritarian rule.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

Among the zaniness there’s an emotional arc, a dance of personal growth and backsliding, and depending on what the scene requires, he might be the dumbest guy in the room or the wisest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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