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

“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

They are the people who backslide so often, who repent so thoroughly, and who flourish like green bay trees spiritually when they flourish at all.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

If the world backslides now, the health-related costs of doing so will be astronomical.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2022

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

They’ve also had as many backslides as moments of progress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2017

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

Student and labor unrest during the 1990s pressured King   MSWATI III, the world's last absolute monarch, to grudgingly allow   political reform and greater democracy, although he has backslid on   these promises in recent years.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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

She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.

From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett

And the other was a 'little' New Yorker, even a renegade of the North, one who had backslidden from the ways of his fathers, and that right ill.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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

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

Meanwhile, other countries are backsliding and reaching for coal.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 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

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