backslide

There’s a sister, too, played by Emily Meade, and her stone-faced appearance during a backslide in Cody’s recovery is a sign that with his past comes a lot he hasn’t faced yet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

That night in Dean's shanty Sally and Dan and "Pap" put their heads together to plan how they could in some way make Job Malden backslide.

From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher

Though ex-military officials have been convicted and prosecutions against others continue, human rights groups say they face increasing challenges as democracy backslides in Guatemala.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

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 act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

And since that strong four-game introduction, he has quickly backslid in three outings since, finishing Thursday with a 10.80 ERA over that span.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

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

Also that decade, allied countries accounted for only 5 percent of global decreases — they backslid very little.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

Maybe it'll help some, a prayer for a poor old sinner that's backslid.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had now to this extent "backslidden" from this point in the slave's religious creed; and I soon had occasion to make my fallen state known to my Sunday-pious brother, Covey.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

It was a mistake to tell that he was backslidden without first knowing the facts of the case.

From Adventures in the Land of Canaan by Robert Lee Berry

She had a horrid suspicion that her lover had backslidden, that he meant to return to his hermit life on the Island, and was here now to jilt her.

From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily

She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.

From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett

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

At a time of societal fracture and backsliding, “Liberation” offered audiences the opportunity to commune collectively with a watershed movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

His husband is still paying off his old credit-card debt, and they are constantly trying to cut down on expenses to avoid backsliding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Meanwhile, other countries are backsliding and reaching for coal.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

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