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

I may backslide now and then, sweetness, but—" "There's no backsliding for you any more, Blink.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst

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

Of course, he backslides if he ain't constantly held to it; but knowin' his past it's a miracle what Abbie's made of him.

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

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 Mountaineers backslid to a 5-6 record last season, when Aguilar’s production dipped and he completed 56% of his passes for 3,003 yards with 23 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

But what was hailed by the Justice Department in the 1970s as a “quantum leap forward from traditional jails” eventually backslid into one.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

“Heavy, herself,” pursued Mary Cox, “Belle and Lluella, who have all backslid from the Upedes, and yourself.”

From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Alice B. Emerson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But he had a heart and a conscience still, and my own heart warmed toward my poor backslidden brother.

From California Sketches, Second Series by O. P. Fitzgerald

Her father, at one time saved and earnest about the souls of others, had grown cold and backslidden, and now never even went near a Meeting.

From Catherine Booth — a Sketch by Colonel Mildred Duff

He had been converted at a revival the previous winter, but was counted to have backslidden of late, and become indifferent to religion.

From Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Edward Bellamy

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

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

They also stressed that they and their allies were working hard to prevent such backsliding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Meanwhile, other countries are backsliding and reaching for coal.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

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

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