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

I may backslide now and then, sweetness, but—" "There's no backsliding for you any more, Blink.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst

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

No; Lafayette is to be the happy man––unless he backslides.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm

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

The Tigers backslid after winning the national title in ’19 and were unranked when they played the Crimson Tide each of the last two seasons.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

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

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 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Indeed, from a frigate's crew might he culled out men of all callings and vocations, from a backslidden parson to a broken-down comedian.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

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

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

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

But both of these instances of democratic backsliding are “historically grounded in the particular situation” of their respective countries, he emphasized.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

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