revert
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The thinking went that yields in France were already historically high compared with those in the safer German market, and bound to revert toward more normal levels despite budget travails in Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The bus fare cap in England will revert to £2, from the current £3 from January.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
"People may revert to their prior behavioural patterns because the incentive payments are insufficient when the enthusiasm has waned," said Ferraro, an expert in human behaviour and public policy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
To begin the repair process, mature liver cells revert toward a fetal-like progenitor state.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Maybe old people revert back to when they were young when they get scared.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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Whether the baseball team that calls Angel Stadium home reverts to its hometown name remains to be seen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Second, it is unclear whether the Strait of Hormuz reverts to an international waterway—the transit for a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil—or whether it remains under the control of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
But he warms right up again when she reverts to Korean to assure him she can pay for the trouble he’s created.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
The company this week instead published a Gauge report for February that reverts to the earlier methodology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why...the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather....
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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Trump additionally reverted the name of Denali, North America's highest peak, to its former moniker Mt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
But within just a few months, I’d reverted to my old habits—immediately glancing at and engaging with every ping and alert, and reflexively picking up my phone to scroll through my rotation of go-to websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
He said, due to the former presence of greenhouses on the land, which then were destroyed and buried under a layer of top soil, it was reverted to agricultural designation.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
For the memorial game, the Feeneys had reverted to their old batting order, so after Greenberg, the lineup would be wholly composed of Feeney elders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Clothes, bedding, furniture, the pictures on the wallscreen—it had all reverted back to Generic Ugly.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Most of those don’t offer much electric range before reverting to the gas engine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
Yet she argues those moments are often temporary, with Islanders reverting "back to the expected gender roles".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Gyllenhaal has done the latter, it seems, reverting to flattened characters who don’t require bold artistic leaps or personal attachment, and thus don’t cause heartbreak if a film underperforms.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
The heat and the manual work had even given him a pretext for reverting to shorts and an open shirt in the evenings.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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