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View definitions for reversion

reversion

noun as in reversal

Weak match

noun as in return to a former state

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The 11% reversion rate was more than three times the percentage that had been reverted in the previous year.

It happened because an entire Potemkin village of originalist academics, originalist law-review articles, originalist theories—chiefly funded by very contemporary oligarchs—was built up to present it as a reversion to the way things always were, as opposed to a revanchist attack on modernity itself; an attack on the common law itself and an assault on the idea of a pluralist, expansive vision of liberty.

From Slate

No further change or reversion can be made within 12 months of an application being granted.

From BBC

It is simply the case that for a whole lot of emboldened lawyers and legislators, the end of Roe means a reversion to the abortion landscape of the Civil War era.

From Slate

So the militarized nationalism of today’s Zionists can be understood as another such reversion, reinforced in 2018 by the Knesset’s "Basic Law" declaring that Israel is “the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” and greatly diminishing it as a liberal democracy.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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