backslider

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The new paper also tested whether revealing more information about each potential backslider changed the accuracy of predictions.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2020

Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twenty-one boys have been "honorably discharged" without a single backslider so far.

From Time Magazine Archive

In matters of economic organization, however, even Lenin was a backslider of sorts.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's a bit of a backslider, but if giving him a job'll pull him up and help him, why, give it him.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell