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

So the young, with a maximum of desire and a minimum of self-restraint, slip into folly, and the aging backslide into shame.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2017

A nation that sells its birthright of peace, and backslides from the front rank of Industrialism into the file of Filibusterism, makes a poor bargain indeed!

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

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

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

“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 Alice B. Emerson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Long ago the Doctor had given over open expostulation; every such talk seemed to evoke a new and more airy and more adventurous demon in the backslidden Reuben.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

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

They also stressed that they and their allies were working hard to prevent such backsliding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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

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