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Recent Examples of backslide
Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
With Kennedy at the helm of HHS, scientists and public health experts worry that a major breakthrough in medicine development may now backslide.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 Mar. 2025
More than 6,000 brands have been rated so far, with staffers generally endeavoring to update scores every 12 to 18 months to judge progress (or backsliding, as the case may be).
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
Such stuff might also have new life via TikTok or YouTube, and have appeal to a new group of people who have been turned off by incessant and dour reports of increasingly harsh weather, backsliding democracy and overseas war.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Sometimes good hitters can backslide, but both of them could heat up as the season progresses.
—Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
With Kennedy at the helm of HHS, scientists and public health experts worry that a major breakthrough in medicine development may now backslide.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 Mar. 2025
More than 6,000 brands have been rated so far, with staffers generally endeavoring to update scores every 12 to 18 months to judge progress (or backsliding, as the case may be).
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
Such stuff might also have new life via TikTok or YouTube, and have appeal to a new group of people who have been turned off by incessant and dour reports of increasingly harsh weather, backsliding democracy and overseas war.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
Noun
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Eve is one of four children belonging to the late Apple founder who died in 2011 after complications from a relapse of a rare form of pancreatic cancer.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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Using her own relapse as bait, Bree managed to coax Sanchez back into his own past drug addiction to protect her family, inadvertently causing his death by overdose.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
20 June 2025
Verb
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Musk stepped down from his role advising the commission at the end of May, as his status as a special government employee lapsed.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
18 June 2025
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The Cato survey revealed that 55% of Americans are unaware that, without congressional action, the tax relief passed during Trump’s first term is set to lapse in just eight months.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
5 May 2025
Noun
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After living under a state government often characterized by inaction, regression or outright hostility to such progressive values, California’s governance is a relative model of responsiveness and foresight.—
DeAndre Evans,
Mercury News,
25 June 2025
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Boyle has noted in numerous interviews, including this chat with Kermode and Mayo, that one of the things that fascinated him about the quarantine zone of 28 Years Later was the potential for a kind of cultural regression.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
Verb
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His demands include asking the company to revert back to open-source and an injunction to prevent OpenAI execs from profiting from AGI.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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During President Donald Trump's second presidency, his administration has designated English as the national language, removed hundreds of books from military libraries that are about race relations and LGBTQ+ history in the United States, and reverted military bases to their Confederate names.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The missed projection was the result of state reversions and unanticipated growth of services for aging and disabled residents.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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The result for Minnesota was a reversion to its harassing, hit-first defense.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2025
Verb
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Data from McKinsey’s 2024 Women in the Workplace study shows that Black women’s promotion rates regressed to 2020 levels despite notable improvements in 2021 and 2022.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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The cumulative effect of regressing academically every summer means kids are starting off every school year in a deficit, as previously mentioned.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
25 June 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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Every garden needs both annuals for instant impact and perennials for color that returns for many years.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Not pictured, but also returning, are Austin North and Fiona Palomo.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
20 June 2025
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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