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Recent Examples of backslide
Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Venus, the planet of joy, art, and pleasure, is backsliding in Aries and Pisces from March 1st to April 12th.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Embed social progress into their business models so that backsliding becomes impossible.
—Paul Klein, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Activists anxiously await air monitors, hope Chicago isn’t backsliding on pollution promises
Chicago is building what climate scientists say could be the country’s best system for monitoring tailpipe pollution from diesel trucks.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Perhaps the most fearful metaphor in the Age of Trump is not collapse, erosion, or backsliding, but endless, spiraling repetition.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Venus, the planet of joy, art, and pleasure, is backsliding in Aries and Pisces from March 1st to April 12th.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Embed social progress into their business models so that backsliding becomes impossible.
—Paul Klein, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Activists anxiously await air monitors, hope Chicago isn’t backsliding on pollution promises
Chicago is building what climate scientists say could be the country’s best system for monitoring tailpipe pollution from diesel trucks.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
Noun
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The relapse rate for those in recovery is as high as 70 percent.—
Ethan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2025
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His decision to be open about the relapse was in part thanks to Bradley Cooper.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Frame learning as an insurance policy leaders cannot afford to let lapse.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The following season, Jo rekindles things with old flame Reed Carter (James Wilder), an ex-con who has begun to lapse back into his old ways, despite telling Jo he's gone straight.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The worst Heat season in more than a decade ended in humiliating fashion on Monday, delivering a sad and sobering message to a proud franchise that played in the NBA Finals two years ago and has witnessed a rapid regression since.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2025
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The only true area of regression so far has been in one statistical category; where a glaring drop in production has signaled a key early-season problem for the team.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Adams started Bad Records a number of years ago as a home for his catalog, much of which has reverted back to him from Universal (which bought PolyGram, which had purchased his original label home, A&M).—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
23 Apr. 2025
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Upon a Time in Hollywood would revert from the studio to Tarantino 30 years after its theatrical release.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Assets that hover near the middle show mean reversion characteristics.—
Alexander S. Blume,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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But much like the European run in October/November 2024 that followed the Outlaw Festival, this was a reversion to the standard Rough and Rowdy Ways show.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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City and Arsenal have unexpectedly regressed, but that should take nothing away from Liverpool, who have been the best side in the country, with a 90-plus points season still possible.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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But the Tigers’ offense seemingly regressed in 2024, and Burden’s stats declined as a result.—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Visa retrogression might become more of an issue for Indian and Chinese applicants who invest under the high-unemployment category due to its more limited availability.—
Sam Silverman,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Does the Senate really want to put in office a secretary with zero medical training, who believes in raw milk and not in the extraordinary benefits of vaccinations, without asking him about such retrogression?—
Arthur House,
Hartford Courant,
22 Nov. 2024
Verb
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Alaba, meanwhile, had returned from 399 days out with his ACL injury in January.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The poll returned from a hiatus in 2024, when monthslong actors and writers' strikes in Hollywood disrupted the rollout of new and returning shows and delayed renewal decisions.—
Gary Levin,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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