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

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

She was only thinking that "it was a heap better to repent 'n to backslide."

From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart

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

To encourage a better Uber, it’s time to play the only card you’ve got: If it backslides or otherwise fails to live up to the promises it’s making now, stop using Uber.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2017

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

And since that strong four-game introduction, he has quickly backslid in three outings since, finishing Thursday with a 10.80 ERA over that span.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

Also that decade, allied countries accounted for only 5 percent of global decreases — they backslid very little.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

Often men backslid, and to a period of intense emotional religion succeeded one of utter unbelief and of reversion to the worst practices which had been given up.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Some sad, Trilby-faced lady who has been "awakened" from a silent, cold, backslidden state by his sermons goes to see him in his church study.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

Can it be Thou hast backslidden to the hateful calling I asked thee to eschew?

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw

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

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

At a time of societal fracture and backsliding, “Liberation” offered audiences the opportunity to commune collectively with a watershed movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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