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

Bass, in turn, warned the county’s actions could cause the city to backslide in its fight against homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

But there is even less excuse for a modern translation to backslide into the style of the eighteenth century.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

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 Mountaineers backslid to a 5-6 record last season, when Aguilar’s production dipped and he completed 56% of his passes for 3,003 yards with 23 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

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

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

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

How did you know but it would be, "Yours, backslidden, H. W. S——?"

From The Palm Tree Blessing by W. E. Shepard

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

Meanwhile, there was nothing left for him to do but to appoint a committee of sinners to attend to the stewards' duties until these should be reclaimed from their backslidden state.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

Three weeks is only a sliver of the NFL season; a backsliding team has plenty of time to correct its course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

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

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

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