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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
On the court, this trade is pretty much a teardown event for Memphis, a commitment to a full-on rebuild after the Jackson-Desmond Bane-Ja Morant core couldn’t get past the second round of the playoffs and began backsliding in the standings once Morant’s availability and production declined.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 4 Feb. 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
On the court, this trade is pretty much a teardown event for Memphis, a commitment to a full-on rebuild after the Jackson-Desmond Bane-Ja Morant core couldn’t get past the second round of the playoffs and began backsliding in the standings once Morant’s availability and production declined.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
Noun
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And withdrawal from 7-OH can last significantly longer than traditional opioid withdrawal — up to three months — a factor that complicates treatment and increases the risk of relapse, according to the International Society of Substance Use Professionals.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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For many individuals, such medications reduce symptoms, improve functioning, prevent relapse, and support recovery.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
7 May 2026
Verb
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But the temporary restraining order later lapsed, allowing Moreno access to the baby shortly before the child’s death.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
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But federal lawmakers have recently noted people picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after their DACA lapsed.—
Hallie Golden,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2026
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His defense remains outstanding, but his regression as a 3-point shooter cost the Magic in their matchup against the Pistons.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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Corner Colton Hood’s selection in the second round, for example, attacked a gaping hole in the roster that Banks’ regression created.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Rulings against the map could revert Kansas City’s congressional district back to the boundaries lawmakers approved in 2022, easing a path for Cleaver to win a 12th term in Congress.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
10 May 2026
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Technically the state could revert back to its original 2022 map with one majority-Black district or redraw a new map entirely.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Meta is lingering around the 150-day moving average, and, having recently fallen below it, this reversion may be a head fake.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2026
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The situation is one of ideological ferment, rather than a reversion to some Romneyite center.—
Amy Davidson Sorkin,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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Rafa Leao and Christian Pulisic were unsustainably clinical in the first half of the season, before regressing to the mean in a side bereft of chance creation in the second half of the campaign.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Smith’s play has regressed over the past two seasons.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
6 May 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
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Robert Pattinson is set to return as Bruce Wayne, joined by Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka the Penguin), Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner James Gordon and Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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His velocity, however, never quite returned.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
7 May 2026
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