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Recent Examples of backslide
Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
On the workforce issue, telemedicine has opened up tremendous new capabilities, although its use has backslid too much since Covid.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
European nations are scrambling to increase ammunition production for Ukraine to prevent backsliding, in the event that US support drops off.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
But since the start of August, the Tigers have gone 7-7 when The Opener hits the rubber — not necessarily winning baseball, but enough to avoid backsliding on the days Skubal can’t go.
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
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And while the end of season 18 left Shannon dangerously close to backsliding — with Tamra exposing Shannon’s role in digging up dirt on Gina, and Shannon confusingly picking a fight with new Housewife Katie Ginella’s husband — there was an emphasis on progress.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
On the workforce issue, telemedicine has opened up tremendous new capabilities, although its use has backslid too much since Covid.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
European nations are scrambling to increase ammunition production for Ukraine to prevent backsliding, in the event that US support drops off.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
But since the start of August, the Tigers have gone 7-7 when The Opener hits the rubber — not necessarily winning baseball, but enough to avoid backsliding on the days Skubal can’t go.
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backslide
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Long-term methadone therapy has proven highly effective in lowering the risks of relapse and overdose while improving overall well-being.Patricia Weiser, PharmD, Verywell Health, 25 Oct. 2024
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The relapse rate for drug abuse is between 40 and 60 percent.Patricia Fersch, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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The Biden-Harris administration is set to allow the protections for Venezuelan migrants to lapse at the end of the month, the DHS confirmed to Newsweek in October.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Their life insurance policies also lapsed due to nonpayment.Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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For example, historically, a site reliability engineer (SRE) would be unlikely to leverage application metrics to know if their Kernel update caused an application-level performance regression.Tom Wilkie, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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He’s described the measure as a dangerous regression to tough-on-crime policies of the past.Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
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According to documents first obtained by TMZ, Jay-Z’s attorneys filed an official notice in August stating that the Reasonable Doubt rights were set to revert back to Jay in 2031.Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
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One term of the deal is that that some of the movie’s rights will revert Coogler over the course of several decades.Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2024
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Chinese experts have voiced confidence that China could cope with Washington’s reversion to protectionism.Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
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The United States must lead the democratic world in defending itself from a reversion to historical patterns that could well lead to democracy’s demise.Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2020
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After a very strong start to her campaign that included packed rallies and innervating stump speeches, Harris mostly regressed back to the ultimately unknowable candidate whom Democratic voters rejected back in 2019.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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What led to the Bears regressing so hard this week?Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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In another 5-to-4 decision, Justice O’Connor wrote an opinion that would significantly alter the initial retrogression standard established in Beer v. United States.Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
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Progressives de nos jours seem inordinately attached to retrogression.Kyle Smith, National Review, 8 June 2021
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Freezing temperatures are forecast to return Saturday morning and at the early part of next week, though minimal precipitation is expected.Hogan Gore, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Residents in the 1900 block of Payne Street, where the Givaudan Sense Colour factory is located, are reckoning with damage to their homes after they were cleared to return from an evacuation order Tuesday.Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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