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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backsliding
Adjective
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Vajiralongkorn divorced their mother in 1996 after accusing her of being unfaithful, stripping her and their sons of their titles and forbidding their return to Thailand.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
26 June 2025 -
People who worked on the nighttime emergency schedule were almost 18 times more likely to be unfaithful to their partners than those who worked part-time.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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But today’s escalating tensions go back to 1953, when British oil companies and the CIA orchestrated a coup and installed the Shah of Iran, a secular ruler willing to accommodate Big Oil and other corporate interests in the West.—
Robert Polner,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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While many are motivated by religious believes, other secular walkers do it as a ‘mindful’ journey, a physical achievement or as a practical way to explore European culture, historical sites and history itself.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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There’s a sinful sort of glee in watching all of this unfold, knowing that the same mournful character might be the next one to die.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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The sinful acts on display here are a direct result of that disenfranchisement, an effort to reclaim what is still owed, forty acres and a mule, with interest.—
Richard Newby,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Is the love of Jesus a substitute for or a complement to the worldly desire for male authority?—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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The impression is that whether behind a desk or the wheel of a plummeting airplane, Korda is a worldly man of action.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
13 June 2025
Verb
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China, for example, plans to launch its own sample return mission to Mars in 2028 with the goal of returning those samples to Earth in 2031.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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The Italian rocket firm earned this designation from European Spaceflight after successfully completing the final flight of the Vega rocket in September and returning the Vega C rocket to flight in December.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Backsliding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backsliding. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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