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revert

[ri-vurt] / rɪˈvɜrt /


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After a rollercoaster four years under Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes, could England revert to a more conservative style of play under Root?

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

General Atomics, the company that builds the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for the Ford class, said the decision to revert to steam “warrants careful reconsideration.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The bill does not mandate the Angels — playing under a Los Angeles name in Anaheim’s city-owned stadium — revert to the Anaheim Angels name.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Cyclical businesses don’t tend to revert to normal, often reverting to losses, and so he argues, “the time to buy a cyclical business is when they’re making losses, not when they’re making super profits.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

Could the individual Epsilon embryo be made a revert, by a suitable technique, to the normality of dogs and cows?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

“There is also a real risk that talks break down and the conflict reverts to its previous state, or even escalates further, once the cease-fire window expires,” Hathorn wrote.

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

Otherwise, he reverts to various forms of industrial policy, such as requiring foreign companies to form partnerships with German firms as a cost of entry into the European market and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2026

Judges do not want to see reverts, where a trick has landed but the board is still spinning.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

Even if everything reverts back to how we used to experience the app a week ago, the damage has been done.

From Slate Jan. 27, 2026

She has virtually no accent until she talks to a Texan, when she instantly reverts.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Tuchel reverted to a back five and made a number of defensive-minded substitutions in the closing stages as Lionel Messi inspired a dramatic comeback.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

The strategy bought the market at that point and held until the market reverted to that mean.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

Only a few days after the pool was refilled, though, it reverted what it always is: a filthy slime pit that nevertheless does an adequate job of its primary objective: reflecting.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2026

For example, when Reckitt rolled out 12 AI solutions for its marketing team, it noticed usage for some tools dropped off after a few weeks as employees reverted to old habits, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

For instance, around 3000 B.C. the hunter-gatherers of southern Sweden adopted farming based on Southwest Asian crops, but abandoned it around 2700 B.C. and reverted to hunting-gathering for 400 years before resuming farming.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The new terms fuel fee growth in the second half of this year and the first half of 2027 before annualizing and reverting to a typical high-single-digit percentage growth rate, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Some analysts argue he’s now reverting to his true nature.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Political consultant Steve Maviglio filed an application Friday with state officials that seeks to alter California’s voting system by reverting to a traditional primary.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

Humanity’s salvation, then, rests in reverting to analog and relying on people more than circuitry.

From Salon May 5, 2026

She breathed in damp, wheezing gasps and cursed periodically, reverting to her unintelligible native tongue.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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