revert
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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
Next year, the opening race is set to revert to Bahrain after two years in Australia as a result of the timing of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Or do we just revert to whining about our dopey NFL fantasy teams?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In exchange for the exemption, the team name would revert to the Anaheim Angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Just as you revert to being about nine years old when you go home to visit your parents, you revert to total subordination when you are in the presence of your former CEO.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
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
Beach had a client who had a bonus payment that pushed him past the $600,000 threshold where the cap reverts back to $10,000.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
Immediately following the titular character’s death, “Hamnet” reverts to the stale, sluggish dynamic between Agnes and William.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
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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The U.K. government said that if the grant was reverted to the original 12% it would fall “significantly lower than the Household’s needs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
As you can see from the chart below, on each past occasion when bitcoin has diverged from its fair-value line, it has subsequently reverted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
“What do we tell people? How do we navigate this? I reverted to being honest, and yes, that led us to the last 48 hours.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Within a millennium, East Polynesian colonists had reverted to hunting-gathering on the Chathams while building a protostate with intensive food production on Hawaii.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Yet she argues those moments are often temporary, with Islanders reverting "back to the expected gender roles".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“A temporary break of ceasefire does not mean that the market is going to think we’re reverting to March, April conflict levels,” Doshi said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Some analysts argue he’s now reverting to his true nature.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Humanity’s salvation, then, rests in reverting to analog and relying on people more than circuitry.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not help reverting once more to the first, and saying:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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