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

"Perhaps you are right, for you're cert'nly a better dove than you were a man, and if you should ever backslide, an' feel wicked again, you couldn't do much harm as a gray dove."

From The Lost Princess of Oz by John R. (John Rea) Neill

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

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

I know he backslides a bit later, but he comes out all right in the end.

From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Clovis G. Chappell

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 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

He said he has focused on paying down the LAPD’s bank of unpaid overtime hours — an effort that backslid in a huge way during the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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

In one of the Southern States lived a lady who had at different times professed to be saved, but as often backslid.

From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

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

Can it be Thou hast backslidden to the hateful calling I asked thee to eschew?

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw

Persis and Forbes were suddenly backslidden almost to infancy.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

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

Three weeks is only a sliver of the NFL season; a backsliding team has plenty of time to correct its course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

In countries like Bangladesh, India and Nepal, youth-led anti-government uprisings have over the past 12 months rallied immense support against the various pressure points of corruption, nepotism, economic inequality and democratic backsliding.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Ours is an age not only of cultural backsliding but also of people uprooting themselves for the sake of safety and reinvention.

From Salon ● May 20, 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

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