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She said: "This is backsliding and will raise alarm bells at the Federal Reserve."

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

These numbers underscore the fact that governments not only have little shot at achieving a goal, set in 2015, of eradicating hunger, but progress toward expanding food access is backsliding.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024

"There's a feeling that Labour is backsliding," says Ms Coningham, an 18-year-old who has just finished her A-levels.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2023

Now, many of them are worrying that America is backsliding.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2022

This is backsliding a good way from the position of Him who said, “Forbid him not: he that is not against us is with us.”

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman