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

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

How did public health backslide so hard that it undid decades of progress—and is there any hope we can get back on track?

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025

We seldom backslide into talking to people about goodness.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee

There is confrontation and denial, improvements followed by backslides.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025

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

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

After showing some promise in October, the Seahawks’ defense has backslid greatly of late and ranks 25th in points allowed, 28th in yards allowed, 25th in passing yards allowed and 23rd in rushing yards allowed.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023

In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated more than $5 billion of his $15-billion climate package toward drought response and water resilience — but in the same month, Californians backslid in their efforts to conserve water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

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

Meanwhile, there was nothing left for him to do but to appoint a committee of sinners to attend to the stewards' duties until these should be reclaimed from their backslidden state.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

He saw his duty plainly,—if Ellen had "backslidden," he must give her another trial.

From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte

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

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

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

Meanwhile, other countries are backsliding and reaching for coal.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

She said: "This is backsliding and will raise alarm bells at the Federal Reserve."

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 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