backslide
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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
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
Bass, in turn, warned the county’s actions could cause the city to backslide in its fight against homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
Unfortunately the convert was soon to backslide, but for the present hearty and ready aid was given in establishing the Dominion naval policy.
From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Oscar Douglas Skelton
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
The process could take five weeks, without any backslides, and is likely to keep him off the Angels’ opening-day roster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2019
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
So yes, there is at least reason for some worry that the defense has backslid a little bit after an October in which most of Seattle’s numbers were among the best in the league.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
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
Often men backslid, and to a period of intense emotional religion succeeded one of utter unbelief and of reversion to the worst practices which had been given up.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we did, everybody reckoned that they had backslidden.
From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock
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
How did you know but it would be, "Yours, backslidden, H. W. S——?"
From The Palm Tree Blessing by W. E. Shepard
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
The landlocked Central Asian country was once seen as the most democratic in the region, but Japarov has been criticised for backsliding since he came to power after a revolution in 2020.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Among the zaniness there’s an emotional arc, a dance of personal growth and backsliding, and depending on what the scene requires, he might be the dumbest guy in the room or the wisest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
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