backslider
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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
She takes a course of Jay's Sermons, to be sure, but she takes it disconsolately, and has serious fears of becoming a backslider.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
