reversion
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Better to embrace the reversion to normal mortgage rates and focus on lifting worker wages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
In a way, this move feels like a reversion to the fan magazines of the Old Hollywood era.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
With semiconductor volatility reading at current levels, a trading down of another 10% in the SMH ETF could still be considered just mean reversion after such a sharp run-up.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 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
“This way, with a reversion clause on the owl, someone would be hunting me.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
The new cases, they add, underscore the need to boost vaccine coverage in order to head off such reversions in the first place.
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
Hence the Volunteers were renewing their attacks on his policies, although for the time being he had been suffering one of his periodic reversions to severity.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
