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

So the young, with a maximum of desire and a minimum of self-restraint, slip into folly, and the aging backslide into shame.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

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

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

And since that strong four-game introduction, he has quickly backslid in three outings since, finishing Thursday with a 10.80 ERA over that span.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

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

Often men backslid, and to a period of intense emotional religion succeeded one of utter unbelief and of reversion to the worst practices which had been given up.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

How did you know but it would be, "Yours, backslidden, H. W. S——?"

From The Palm Tree Blessing by W. E. Shepard

At this time her uncle was in a backslidden state, and in all probability would insist on the marriage.

From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by E. E. Byrum

At a time of societal fracture and backsliding, “Liberation” offered audiences the opportunity to commune collectively with a watershed movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

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

But the north African nation has since seen democratic backsliding and the re-imposition of aspects of authoritarian rule.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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