backsliding

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to go back to doing something bad when you have been doing something good, especially to stop working hard or to fail to do something that you had agreed to do:

Examples:

My diet was going well, but I've been backsliding a little recently.

to return to old, often bad, habits, or to a worse condition:

Examples:

Some states have started to backslide on health care.

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