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

Men are wise with their schools and their teachers, Men are just with their creeds and their priests; Yet, in spite of their pedants and preachers, They backslide in footprints of beasts!

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

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

So yes, there is at least reason for some worry that the defense has backslid a little bit after an October in which most of Seattle’s numbers were among the best in the league.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

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 then he came to Italy, made a new start, and backslid to Waldensianism.

From The Saracen: The Holy War by Robert Shea

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He had backslidden, slackened in the use of the means of grace, run after the things of this world.

From Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Well, the young brother must have backslidden, was the instant conclusion, and so it was reported.

From Adventures in the Land of Canaan by Robert Lee Berry

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 Colonel Mildred Duff

It was a mistake to tell that he was backslidden without first knowing the facts of the case.

From Adventures in the Land of Canaan by Robert Lee Berry

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