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Recent Examples of backslide
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The White House is nonetheless fielding complaints, made in private and public, from Republicans who believe Trump is encroaching on Congress’s power of taxation and threatening to send the United States into an economic backslide.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
This backsliding especially impacts Sudan’s oppressed ethnic and religious populations, including Christians.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Life Is Beautiful pulls the Atlanta vet into the mind-meld that yielded the formidable 2023 Al and June full length The Great Escape, and the trio disappears into a spirited boom-bap backslide together.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The White House is nonetheless fielding complaints, made in private and public, from Republicans who believe Trump is encroaching on Congress’s power of taxation and threatening to send the United States into an economic backslide.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
Bass, in turn, warned the county’s actions could cause the city to backslide in its fight against homelessness.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
This backsliding especially impacts Sudan’s oppressed ethnic and religious populations, including Christians.
—Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
Noun
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Lyonne recently gave fans an update on her health just months after a relapse in her sobriety.—
Sharareh Drury,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Apr. 2026
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Rue and Jules’s romance was basically over after Rue’s relapse.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Federal funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed in February, leaving TSA officers across the nation's airports working without pay.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2026
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While disaster response and recovery can continue through a shutdown because FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund does not lapse, that money is running low as the funding impasse drags on.—
Gabriela Aoun Angueira,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For a decade now, every moment of progress has been met with rapid and shocking regression.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones.—
Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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How about 162 games — with just two left before the win-loss column reverts back to 0-0 for the playoffs.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The president then reverted back to praising Hansen for being a bright Canadian on the trip.—
Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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From Cape Coral to Kansas City, America’s housing market is undergoing a historic reversion to the mean—and the data couldn’t be more striking.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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The announcement amounts to a reversion back to the bill the Senate passed last week that would have funded all of DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection.—
Justin Papp,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The starting rotation is still quite good, though has regressed to 10th in MLB in ERA.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2026
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Ceci and Dumoulin had little positive impact on the Kings, who slipped in terms of defensive effectiveness, regressed tremendously in the transition game and plummeted all the way to 30th of 32 teams on the penalty kill.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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This book is all about the fight to stem the tide of retrogression.—
Ken Makin,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 Nov. 2025
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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
Verb
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The meeting comes amid a busy week for Sánchez, who just returned from meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, his fourth trip to Beijing in just over three years.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Jarrelle Augustine, 28, allegedly stole expensive sets, such as Star Wars and Marvel, and sealed up the Lego boxes before returning them to the stores for refunds, according to the Irvine Police Department.—
Michele Gile,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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