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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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The comments come after his administration decided to only partially fund lapsed SNAP food assistance during the shutdown, after two federal courts forced him to tap emergency funds to pay out benefits.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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The news came a few days after SNAP benefits lapsed for November due to the ongoing government shutdown, which has now passed the one-month mark.—
Nashville Tennessean,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Ceruto said the experience is not a reflection of regression, but a response to emotional trauma.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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The promise of Carson Beck has given way to the regression of the turnover bug that plagued him last year at Georgia.—
Erick Smith,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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All worth watching, though perhaps with seasonal factors favorable, earnings clocking in near a 12% annual growth pace and credit markets showing little stress, a modest wobble is enough to skim away some froth and revert the market to its benign trend.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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However, Penix returned last week, and Cousins has presumably reverted back to the trading block, where the Falcons have had him since the preseason.—
Max Dible,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Further research, including experiments to figure out the timing and conditions under which the tomato plants evolved to this ancestral state, would help confirm what caused the reversion.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Is this Rick’s fresh start, or a reversion to his old ways?—
Willing Davidson,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Their debut album, Forever, sounds like temporarily regressing to your childhood self while tripping—a kind of gleaming innocence desperately fending off the darkness of adulthood lurking at the periphery.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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Joey Aguilar has been a solid replacement for Nico Iamaleava, but the defense has regressed and the inability to beat the elite in the SEC likely will cost them.—
Erick Smith,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 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 8 Nov. 2025.
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