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Daniel Vergano, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Points were awarded for meeting the goal and were taken away for backsliding.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
Recent months have already shown some backsliding into dryness, in part because record-smashing heat has been sapping moisture from the air and landscape.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
On Wednesday, Phil Scott, Vermont's governor, said the latest round of flooding caused recovery efforts to backslide.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
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Verb
Constantly backsliding, these landings won’t be possible until the 2030s, and NASA should end the charade of them happening in this decade, reliant on dozens of complex new technologies working together.
—Daniel Vergano, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Points were awarded for meeting the goal and were taken away for backsliding.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
Recent months have already shown some backsliding into dryness, in part because record-smashing heat has been sapping moisture from the air and landscape.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
On Wednesday, Phil Scott, Vermont's governor, said the latest round of flooding caused recovery efforts to backslide.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
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However, their effectiveness in preventing relapse has been questioned.Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
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No amount of rehab or pharmaceutical counter-agents can prevent a relapse; achieving and maintaining sobriety requires daily effort.Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
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At the time of the anniversary, however, the act has lapsed and is not currently included in the National Defense Authorization Act – the bill’s best chance for reauthorization.Olivia Enos, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Fire Districts 4 and 13 are both hoping to restore rates that voters approved in the past but have since lapsed.Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 July 2024
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This stage trains a simpler regression model to predict historical third-party vote shares using the average support for third-party candidates in the polls.G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
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But these responses speak to the broader conversation about the trend, as many view it as a regression in the women's rights movement.Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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In races with few polls, the polling average is reverted back toward the imputed average there based on polls in other districts.G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2024
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His plan suggests reverting property tax bills to 2021 levels.Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
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But the reversion to the mean of a White male CEO also is happening at the same time that many firms are backing off their early-2020s commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
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The dramatic increase in AMT applicability is due to the reversion back to pre-TCJA phase-out and exemption amounts.Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Its high 2024 grounder park factor of 116.9 pumped up offense a bit - at this point, that seems like an outlier that should regress to the mean going forward.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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Based on data collected using FanGraphs, Torres is a defensive liability and has regressed since demonstrating signs of improvement during the 2022 season.Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 5 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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The series reboot also sees her TV brother David Henrie return as Justin Russo.Angel Saunders, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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The middle-aged Iowa resident had returned from travel in that region early in October, Iowa public health officials said in a news release.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Backslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backslide. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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