backslide

The backslide dampens sparks of recovery booked the previous quarter, when Kering spoke optimistically of a “marked acceleration” at Gucci that drove group sales 2% higher on year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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

It is in our nature to backslide for ever; thou, and thou only, knowest the deceitfulness of the heart; thou, and thou only, canst search it.

From The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham

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

To encourage a better Uber, it’s time to play the only card you’ve got: If it backslides or otherwise fails to live up to the promises it’s making now, stop using Uber.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2017

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 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

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

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 taffy cast to her hair had backslid to ashes of roses.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Fannie Hurst

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

At this time her uncle was in a backslidden state, and in all probability would insist on the marriage.

From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by E. E. Byrum

She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.

From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett

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

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

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