revert
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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
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“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
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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
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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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