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revert

[ri-vurt] / rɪˈvɜrt /


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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

“T. nutricula is a jellyfish that can actually revert its body to the polyp stage. To its younger self!”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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

Normal overnight services will resume on Friday, when the department reverts back to an A&E.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the movie needs him to be the baddie, so he reverts to evildoing for no apparent reason.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Maybe this is the last "becoming American" move Didu needs to make before she reverts back to her old self.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Trump additionally reverted the name of Denali, North America's highest peak, to its former moniker Mt.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Perez hasn’t publicly explained why he has reverted to the coach he let go in 2013.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

When registering disapprobation, he always reverted back to her childhood nickname.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Russell will also be reverting to an older specification car in Singapore this weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Most of those don’t offer much electric range before reverting to the gas engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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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