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There’s a long-running debate about whether the reverse—cold acclimatization—also occurs.

Global coronavirus deaths have been falling—but scientists are worried that new variants of the virus may reverse those trends.

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While the Mavericks are hardly in crisis given Doncic’s youth and supreme talent, they will be forced to ponder some existential questions if they can’t reverse their negative momentum.

Frustration over vaccinations comes as the Washington region’s average for new infections has been dropping, reversing a post-holiday surge that led to record highs in cases and virus-related deaths last month.

Comcast on Wednesday said it would suspend its new fees on heavy home Internet users in more than a dozen Northeastern states, reversing course on a policy that threatened higher bills for some families amid the coronavirus pandemic.

But  Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.

So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.

My trip takes the reverse path, and I begin by assessing the depth of my Shakespeare knowledge in his birthplace.

Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).

Europeans seem to find them exotic, an odd case of culture-envy in reverse.

When, however, you learn by rote you know the task as you learned it, and not in the reverse way.

As before suggested, let the pupil recite the foregoing ten events forwards and the reverse way several times from memory.

The backs are mostly cut the reverse way of the grain to the present rule, forming what are now termed "slab" backs.

But for the assurance of his senses he could have believed they headed towards these yellow cliffs instead of the reverse.

The tunnel itself includes a reverse curve, and, at the present time, railroad tracks and Stock Creek waters run through it.

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On this page you'll find 284 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reverse, such as: reversal, about-face, antipode, antithesis, back, and bottom.

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

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