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Recent Examples of backslide
Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Injuries played a major role in the backslide as Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, and Moe Wagner all missed significant time.
—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
Daria Kaleniuk, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
To dismiss them outright risks backsliding into a stricter, more limited understanding of masculinity.
—Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Natomas Unified seemed to struggle this year, seeing a slight backslide in the number of students meeting standards in ELA and only a slight increase in math.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Injuries played a major role in the backslide as Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, and Moe Wagner all missed significant time.
—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
Their message was clear: Ukrainians would not allow backsliding on democratic, transparent governance, even—or especially—amid a brutal war.
—Daria Kaleniuk, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
To dismiss them outright risks backsliding into a stricter, more limited understanding of masculinity.
—Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
Noun
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Said to offer a level of care not currently available in any other local program, patients would be overseen by doctors and nurses who would oversee withdrawal management and therapy designed to prevent relapses.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Not only are relapses unpredictable but scientists have yet to explain the slow and insidious degeneration that often occurs even without new lesions.—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Federal food assistance will also lapse starting that day, disproportionately impacting Miami seniors.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2025
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None of them have officially tested warheads since the 1990s, but the relevant treaties have largely lapsed, and Russia is believed to have carried out secret tests.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Mice have distinct hair growth cycles – growth (anagen), regression (catagen), and rest (telogen).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Oct. 2025
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While not a guarantee, that figure indicates that a regression in the win/loss column over the second half of the year is likely unless the team can perform better.—
Max Dible,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The most enduring systems — biological, social, or economic — don’t revert.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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Selling a put under those conditions, with roughly 60 days to expiration, positions the seller to capture elevated option premium while capturing the tendency for prices to revert toward the mean.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Is this Rick’s fresh start, or a reversion to his old ways?—
Willing Davidson,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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While the downtrend is still intact, price is reaching a level where a mean-reversion bounce could set up.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Central defensive duo Jean-Clair Todibo and Maximilian Kilman continue to regress, while loanee Igor Julio has struggled to impress Nuno.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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After a promising 2023 campaign which saw Triston Casas mash 24 home runs and look like the Red Sox's first baseman of the future, the 25-year-old seems to have heavily regressed and has missed most of the past two seasons due to injury.—
Shaun McAvoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 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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Other big stories ➤ More than 350 residents from Marana and surrounding southern Arizona communities gathered to criticize Management and Training Corporation's refusal to communicate on whether a shuttered state prison will return as an ICE detention center.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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Sanders has since been charged with intentionally abandoning a child younger than 15 without intent to return, a third-degree felony charge in Texas, according to court documents.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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