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reverse

[ri-vurs] / rɪˈvɜrs /






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Investors and consultants cautioned that Wall Street’s reaction to Muse could ultimately reverse once established players catch up with technological change.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

The Republic of Ireland are due to play Israel on 27 September in Hungary before the reverse fixture in Serbia on 4 October.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

None of the interventions on its own was able to reverse the overall losses of biodiversity and carbon across the full study area.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

But Riyadh's strikes have failed to reverse the group's gains.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

“Sharks have few offspring, which makes it easy for them to become extinct. But maybe we can still reverse what we’ve done to them.”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

“Hey, come here, piggy piggy, come here, baby,” he said in one TikTok video, his bike brakes squealing as he reverses direction to catch up with the pink, fuzzy fugitive.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 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

In the central display cases, the traffic between home and the front reverses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

"We are not saying that semaglutide reverses aging or makes people younger," said Corley.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

We also know that it reverses itself every 500,000 years or so on average, though that average hides a huge degree of unpredictability.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In 2024, two High Court judges ruled that Quaye's treatment breached those safeguards - but the Court of Appeal later reversed that decision.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Stem cell transplantation reversed motor impairments caused by the strokes in the mice.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

EFF is seeking more details from CMS, such as how often denials were reversed on appeal, how the AI systems were trained and how they were tested to protect from bias, Cohen said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Where an action can be reversed with little impact, catching problems afterward may be enough.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

It reversed, in loud screeches, as if the driver wanted to make as much of an impression as possible, and stopped in front of the house.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The stock was rising 1.1% in recent midday trading on Tuesday toward an 11-month high, reversing an earlier loss of as much as 1.5% seen just after the opening bell.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

The 10-year German Bund yield rose to a 15-year high of 3.515% before reversing to 3.502% on the back of declining oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

TSA is also considering allowing some US passengers to take full water bottles through security, reversing a policy that was implemented after a foiled 2006 terror plot.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Winning in the playoffs would go a long way to reversing that.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The United States is one of the few governments that actually supports an agency devoted to reversing the arms race.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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