backslide
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backslid
or backslidden\ ˈbak-ˌsli-dᵊn
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backsliding\ ˈbak-ˌslī-diŋ
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Investors face two key questions: First, are emerging markets really backsliding? — James Mackintosh, WSJ, "Investor Lessons From Turkey’s Crash to Earth," 14 Aug. 2018 The story of Hungary’s backslide Hungary, a member of the European Union since 2004, had been a competitive democracy since the early 1990s. — John Ahlquist, Washington Post, "Hungarians go to the polls today. But are voters enough to protect democracy?," 8 Apr. 2018 The prospect of his return to government has worried many within the Tamil community, as well as some diplomats and human-rights activists, that the country could backslide on its treatment of minority groups. — Uditha Jayasinghe, WSJ, "Sri Lankan High Court Blocks Move to Dissolve Parliament," 13 Nov. 2018 Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats. — Jane Coaston, Vox, "Max Boot, Jackie Robinson, and the racism problem in the Republican Party," 12 Oct. 2018 And for the first time since 1979, the same number of countries (24 in total) are backsliding on democracy as are advancing. — Anna Lührmann, Washington Post, "One-third of the world’s population lives in a declining democracy. That includes the United States.," 4 July 2018 Regional Representative for Europe Birgit Van Hout expressed concern Tuesday that backsliding on rights and rule of law is also happening in Austria, Italy, Malta, Romania and Slovakia. — Fox News, "UN warns of rule of law, rights 'backsliding' in Europe," 12 June 2018 Fabius reiterated the need for a global environmental pact to prevent nations from backsliding on their environmental protection obligations. — Washington Post, "Official: US pullout from climate deal ‘dangerous nonsense’," 18 May 2018 Despite briefly fighting back in the third quarter, the Warriors backslid in the fourth quarter and lost, 127-105 — their worst defeat of the playoffs. — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, "N.B.A. Playoffs: Houston Rockets Pull Even With Warriors in Game 2," 16 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'backslide.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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