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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
Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
What followed in Serbia was backsliding on democracy.
—Hanna Begić, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 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
All this assumes that America and the West do not backslide into their own versions of authoritarianism.
—Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
What followed in Serbia was backsliding on democracy.
—Hanna Begić, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
Noun
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Young weaponizes addiction for profit, the insurance giant charges in a $40 million federal lawsuit, asserting that Young’s businesses cycled patients from one entity to another and encouraged relapse so that billing cycles could start anew.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
6 Nov. 2025
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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
Verb
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When a partner transforms fundamentally, obligations may lapse without dishonor.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Dogs with older licenses that have lapsed also are eligible.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One of the reasons for their regression was Monken’s unit also regressed.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Signs of Tagovailoa’s regression began to show in 2025.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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That move is historically overextended and is likely to revert closer to the mean.—
Jay Woods,
CNBC,
16 Dec. 2025
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But Reiner said Shearer eventually realized that the movie’s stars hadn’t actually made that much money from the movie, and Shearer eventually got the rights to revert back to the creators.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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Mean-reversion bubbles, by contrast, are fads that inflate and collapse without transforming the underlying industry.—
Brian Blank,
The Conversation,
29 Dec. 2025
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Platinum--a key metal in catalytic converters--is also benefitting from the energy reversion trade.—
Kelly Evans,
CNBC,
19 Dec. 2025
Verb
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One of the reasons for their regression was Monken’s unit also regressed.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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The team regressed greatly at quarterback, and the defensive front seven didn’t deliver until late in the season.—
Chris Perkins,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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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Barton will have to wait another month to receive his sentence for the six guilty counts the jury returned on charges of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety to football broadcasters Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, and TV and radio host Jeremy Vine.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Thomas returned the ball 10 yards to the Syracuse 23-yard line.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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