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The new paper also tested whether revealing more information about each potential backslider changed the accuracy of predictions.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2020

In matters of economic organization, however, even Lenin was a backslider of sorts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twenty-one boys have been "honorably discharged" without a single backslider so far.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was leaning on a broken reed, for Beta was himself a backslider.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)