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

Sometimes, as “Back to the Future” cynically implies, it backslides or gets stuck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

It is worse yet if a man whose name has long been a guarantee for his message, backslides and brings doubt upon all his previous professions.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

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 lengthy point streak got them back in wild-card contention, but the Kraken backslid last week, in no small part because of injury and illness.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 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

The result was that at least two of the congregation backslid over it, and the whole church was thrown into confusion.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.

From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett

He saw his duty plainly,—if Ellen had "backslidden," he must give her another trial.

From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte

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

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

Ours is an age not only of cultural backsliding but also of people uprooting themselves for the sake of safety and reinvention.

From Salon ● May 20, 2026

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

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