reversal
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What underlying physical process could cause dark energy to undergo such a reversal?
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
The reversal could send cold weather spilling southward—bad news for your heating bill at a time when supplies of natural gas and diesel are tight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Li Shuo, of the Asia Society Policy Institute, calls it a "role reversal".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Wall Street barely had time to celebrate Wednesday’s postelection rally before Thursday delivered a brutal reversal, erasing nearly $3 trillion in market value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Embedded in the history of the gene is “the quest for eternal youth, the Faustian myth of abrupt reversal of fortune, and our own century’s flirtation with the perfectibility of man.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Wiles, who co-managed the president's successful 2024 re-election campaign, developed a reputation as a cool professional who avoided the White House staffing upheavals, dramatic policy reversals and personality clashes that typified Trump's first presidential term.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Comparing these records with known magnetic reversals showed that the deposits formed during the Matuyama Chron, a period that began more than two million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Since results for the latest quarter will be compared against results from that period, the companies are expected to see especially dramatic reversals of fortune.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026
Saramago captures the rambling reversals of Senhor José’s thoughts with an unconventional prose style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Obviously, that is no more than an average long-term trend, with innumerable shifts in either direction: 1,000 amalgamations for 999 reversals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing reversal
Novel Study: Of Mice and Men, Chapters 1–3
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -al, -ial
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