backslider
Example Sentences
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The new paper also tested whether revealing more information about each potential backslider changed the accuracy of predictions.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2020
In matters of economic organization, however, even Lenin was a backslider of sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-one boys have been "honorably discharged" without a single backslider so far.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prodigal was a backslider: when furthest from home he could yet think and speak of the privileges of his father's house.
From Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. by James Hudson Taylor
