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
Twenty-one boys have been "honorably discharged" without a single backslider so far.
From Time Magazine Archive
Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
In matters of economic organization, however, even Lenin was a backslider of sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are many now living who could bear witness to the earnestness, with which she sought to warn the unconverted, to reclaim the wanderer, to recover the backslider.
From The Pilot's Daughter an account of Elizabeth Cullingham by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
