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

Unfortunately the convert was soon to backslide, but for the present hearty and ready aid was given in establishing the Dominion naval policy.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Oscar Douglas Skelton

If the world backslides now, the health-related costs of doing so will be astronomical.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2022

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

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

They also backslid in losing six of eight before the break.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

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's jined up wid de chu'ch when I was sixteen, but now I aims to git backslid back enough to take de road what leads into dis rabbi place.

From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If we did, everybody reckoned that they had backslidden.

From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock

"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

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

He had backslidden, slackened in the use of the means of grace, run after the things of this world.

From Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

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