reversion
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“While it is difficult to predict the exact timing of a steel price reversion from the currently elevated levels, for now we believe Sims remains a key beneficiary,” says RBC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
There was still time for some curious changes and an all too familiar reversion to type at Fulham on the final day as the limp visitors suffered a 17th league defeat of the campaign.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
A reversion to the mean of the last three decades would imply the index’s declining in value by a third.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Even if this proves to be the exception, a near-term reversion to prewar oil prices sounds like a pipe dream.
From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026
This was, in other words, an adaptation of his atmospheric steam engine, or rather a reversion to his earlier plan for a wind-gun powered by atmospheric pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Experts say these reversions, though disappointing, seem to be extremely rare, and the vaccine appears much more genetically stable than its predecessor.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 2023
She added that, of course, tactical reversions to the ancient and “primitive” were recurrent modernist tropes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
As Bob Dylan reversions a song for a compilation EP that turns classic tunes into same-sex wedding tracks, we look at how gender lyrics have evolved over the years.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2018
According to the figures, state officials had estimated that there would be $30 million in reversions, or temporary reductions, from state agencies for the year.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2015
At the same time, however, under given conditions, this principle also tends to produce reversions in type in the shape of too frequently repeated and abnormally multiple births.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.