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reversion
noun as in return to a former state
Example Sentences
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.
No further change or reversion can be made within 12 months of an application being granted.
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.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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