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More rain is in the forecast this week and while that will be welcome, sustained rainfall is needed to reverse drought conditions.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He lost his bid to reverse the decision but with his permanent return, Ravec's risk management board will likely be re-evaluating the threat level he faces.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
That could mean some of the industrial upturn that has helped the German economy might reverse in the second half of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Improvements observed in mice do not necessarily mean that eating sea squirts or taking plasmalogen supplements will reverse aging in humans.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The strategy reverses a yearslong expansion of product selection to meet consumer demand for new colors, styles and sizes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
If that backdrop reverses, business models built on refinancing ever-cheaper debt begin to look much more fragile, according to Clark.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We are not saying that semaglutide reverses aging or makes people younger," said Corley.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
"An opt-out scheme just reverses that default and makes us go through hoops to preserve it."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Then slowly reverses and zigzags its way back up the hill.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Within a few weeks, Sheer Health’s team used much of the same information from my appeal to get the denial reversed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Scotland's ranking in the latest Pisa international education study, external did not change significantly between 2022 and 2025 but a long-term decline in reading standards has not been reversed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Is it a sight of pure, inhumane evil, or do their blank expressions merely reflect a corruption that can still be reversed?
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
By the early 1850s, however, he had reversed himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
We talked for half an hour about changing outcomes, about whether directions in life can be altered or reversed.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
But even some retailers that cut back on store staff in recent years are reversing course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Winning in the playoffs would go a long way to reversing that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
She also thinks that reversing the decline in school nurses could help spot vulnerable children sooner.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Removing EP2 restored the macrophages' ability to dispose of neutrophils, reversing the disruption caused by PGE2.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
I’ve barely closed the door before Dad’s reversing down the driveway.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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