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
It took me just one second to backslide from my politeness.
From The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower
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
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
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
The lengthy point streak got them back in wild-card contention, but the Kraken backslid last week, in no small part because of injury and illness.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
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
Student and labor unrest during the 1990s pressured King MSWATI III, the world's last absolute monarch, to grudgingly allow political reform and greater democracy, although he has backslid on these promises in recent years.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool.
From Time Magazine Archive
How did you know but it would be, "Yours, backslidden, H. W. S——?"
From The Palm Tree Blessing by W. E. Shepard
My experience in regeneration was then clear and spiritual, and I had not backslidden.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
As for Rose, if there crept into her little prayers a touch of sentiment as she pleaded for the backslidden son of the minister, her prayers were none the worse for it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
But after her uncle had backslidden, she began to receive more or less persecution from her people.
From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by E. E. Byrum
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
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
A former adviser to Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said Tuesday he will run against him in April elections, denouncing "democratic backsliding" in the small but highly strategic Horn of Africa nation.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
This backsliding flies in the face of how much progress has been made to stop people from dying needlessly.
From Salon ● Nov. 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
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