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

People who are willing to serve and sacrifice rarely backslide.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

There is confrontation and denial, improvements followed by backslides.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025

Though ex-military officials have been convicted and prosecutions against others continue, human rights groups say they face increasing challenges as democracy backslides in Guatemala.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

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

I know he backslides a bit later, but he comes out all right in the end.

From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Clovis G. Chappell

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

They also backslid in losing six of eight before the break.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 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

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 saw his duty plainly,—if Ellen had "backslidden," he must give her another trial.

From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte

I had now to this extent "backslidden" from this point in the slave's religious creed; and I soon had occasion to make my fallen state known to my Sunday-pious brother, Covey.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

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

If we did, everybody reckoned that they had backslidden.

From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock

Three weeks is only a sliver of the NFL season; a backsliding team has plenty of time to correct its course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

She said: "This is backsliding and will raise alarm bells at the Federal Reserve."

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

He has the ear of government and this is the message he is shouting into it: that there should be no backsliding on implementing the newly enacted Employment Rights Act.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

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