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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslid
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However, in 2025, Hadid appeared to have relapsed, posting photos of herself in a hospital bed.—
Grace Gavilanes,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026 -
Delonte West’s Recent String of Arrests West has rebounded and relapsed several times since then.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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Flashbacks are deployed as more than mere framing devices, since the past plays an active, exciting role in the town’s present, and there’s an extended drug trip that skillfully manipulates lapsed time through recurring blackouts to keep you on the edge of your seat.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Apr. 2026
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During the more than 60 days since DHS funding lapsed, many TSA workers have struggled, according to their union.—
Tami Luhby,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
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But Nussmeier decided to stay in school, and his play regressed due to injuries and inconsistent play.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Since then, the team has regressed in the postseason.—
Dan Gelston,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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In 2017, Neverland Ranch was reverted back to its original name of Sycamore Valley Ranch, per Billboard.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
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The third, introduced on April 16, added a system prompt instruction capping the model’s responses at 25 words between tool calls—a change Anthropic said measurably hurt coding quality before it was reverted four days later.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Among other things, the lawsuit asserted that tens of thousands of absentee ballots already have been mailed to people and a substantial number have been filled out and returned.—
David A. Lieb,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Some of the scrubs have been returned because customers found the material to be too thick for their liking.—
Lisa Gutierrez
May 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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“Backslid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslid. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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