backslide
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“It is a backlash, a backslide, and it is happening at an unprecedented scale, where ultimately we are silencing women’s voices.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
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
We seldom backslide into talking to people about goodness.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
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
The process could take five weeks, without any backslides, and is likely to keep him off the Angels’ opening-day roster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2019
I know he backslides a bit later, but he comes out all right in the end.
From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Chappell, Clovis G.
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
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
“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
He had been converted at a revival the previous winter, but was counted to have backslidden of late, and become indifferent to religion.
From Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Bellamy, Edward
Well, the young brother must have backslidden, was the instant conclusion, and so it was reported.
From Adventures in the Land of Canaan by Berry, Robert Lee
She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.
From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart
As for Rose, if there crept into her little prayers a touch of sentiment as she pleaded for the backslidden son of the minister, her prayers were none the worse for it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
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
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
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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