backslide
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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
Rodgers is an excellent example of the backslide.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024
Every time something encouraging happens — executing the game plan to near-perfection at Vancouver, or tossing the kitchen sink and cabinets at the Sharks — they immediately backslide.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023
Every year teachers and parents observe how summer vacations lead some children’s academic progress to backslide.
From Scientific American • Jun. 29, 2023
"Perhaps you are right, for you're certainly a better dove than you were a man, and if you should ever backslide an' feel wicked again, you couldn't do much harm as a gray dove."
From The Lost Princess of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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