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

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

The process could take five weeks, without any backslides, and is likely to keep him off the Angels’ opening-day roster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2019

Of course, he backslides if he ain't constantly held to it; but knowin' his past it's a miracle what Abbie's made of him.

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

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

I have backslid the worst way, and it is going to take me a month after Uncle Ezra goes away to climb up to the grace that I have fallen from.

From The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

One day about the middle of the meeting this young man came to the altar, and when asked what was the trouble he said that he had backslidden.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

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

"Stand steady, men—God is with us!" was the extraordinary battle-cry of this backslidden clergyman, this sinner above many.

From The Brigade Commander by J. W. Deforest

His husband is still paying off his old credit-card debt, and they are constantly trying to cut down on expenses to avoid backsliding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Meanwhile, other countries are backsliding and reaching for coal.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 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

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