revert
Example Sentences
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Exceptional growth used to eventually revert, generally within five to seven years.
From Barron's
The opposite happened: Suppressing deception caused models to report consciousness 96% of the time, while amplifying it caused them to deny consciousness and revert to corporate disclaimers.
“One would hope that it can revert to what it once was.”
Ruth Kelly, the NAO analyst, said the government needed to avoid reverting to "that pattern of counter-productive quick fixes that we have seen in the past".
From BBC
Scientists used cells from one affected child and reverted them to a stem-cell-like state to investigate the mutation's effects.
From Science Daily
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