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While better rainfall and agricultural production this year have helped, one good harvest "cannot undo the damage of several years of drought".
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Still, the late-evening thoughts eventually led him to undo some decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He said no apology could undo that but the trust would "support women who have been impacted" in any way possible.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
This would effectively undo the 2025 rate cuts pushed by former Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, and would bring the central bank’s benchmark interest rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I thought if I did a good thing, I could undo a bad thing.”
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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The two-segment operating model undoes changes made by former chief executive Bernard Looney that were initiated as part of BP’s pivot to lower-carbon sources of energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The decision undoes a ruling by US District Judge Maame E Frimpong in Los Angeles, who had said that there is a "mountain of evidence" showing the raids were violating the US Constitution.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
It started with the recent ancestor of XEC, KP.3.3, which exhibits a mutation that undoes destroying the essential transcription region of N* so the N* protein can’t be produced.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2024
The decision by an 11-judge 9th Circuit panel undoes one made last year by a three-judge panel of the same court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2024
She undoes the string on the chicken, and the glazed paper.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Audiences learned in the 2024 series, “Agatha All Along,” that although Billy and Tommy’s physical forms disappeared when Wanda undid her hex at the end of “WandaVision,” their souls remained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Goolsbee said the tariffs weren’t one and done: New rounds piled onto earlier ones, courts undid some, and still more have followed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The fastest Ferrari driver across the weekend, but two costly penalties undid much of the good work.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
And whatever your case for tariffs is, the way we implemented them undid it completely.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026
Hatsue undid the belt on her coat, a herringbone wraparound from the Penney’s in Anacortes.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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City were undone by goals in each half from the brilliant Jackson at a raucous Villa Park to end their streak of seven straight wins at the start of this campaign.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Compared with the staid look of the BBC’s seminal 1995 version of “Pride & Prejudice,” Knightley’s Elizabeth comes off as modernly undone, like your best-looking friend who’s also into thrifting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Also set to appear on the show is Mollica’s Thomas Shepherd, an older incarnation of one of Wanda and Vision’s magically created sons who had disappeared when the hex enveloping Westview was undone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Cronje was undone when an Indian police wiretap of a bookmaker caught him in discussions about fixing matches.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
He straightened his shoulders, placed the crystal snowdrop in the top buttonhole of his coat, now undone.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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After undoing her hex that let her live out a version of a happily ever after with Vision, Wanda had to watch him and their kids — twin boys Tommy and Billy Maximoff — disappear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Just over two weeks after its release, Stone’s undoing has racked up more than 1.6 million pageviews.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The yen has underperformed over the last month, undoing most of BOJ’s intervention in recent months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"I think that would absolutely go a long way to… undoing some of the disdain towards the water companies and get people on board to help look after our water resources."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Oh, my tongue, my abominable tongue! Why can’t I learn to keep it quiet?” groaned Jo, remembering words which had been her undoing.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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