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
“If you think about the periodicity of significant bear markets, since 1970 we get kind of a mean reversion about on average every 10 years,” he said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 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
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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But because these reversions are rare events, the new vaccine’s true worth could not be known until it was used widely under close scrutiny.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 19, 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
There are in every species biological "sports" and reversions, and there are individuals of this kind among sporting men who are not reached by ordinary social suggestion and stimuli.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra