reversal
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Appeared in the March 10, 2026, print edition as 'Oil’s Wild Day Sees Big Surge, Reversal'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Reversal: The Boston Bruins severed ties with the defenseman Mitchell Miller yesterday, two days after signing him.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022
Reversal film produces a positive rather than negative image: when you look at a piece of footage, you see what is projected.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2018
Reversal of fortune: For one man in San Francisco, the path from homelessness to a six-figure salary.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2017
This Reversal of Fortune is not good for either of us.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Vocabulary lists containing reversal
Novel Study: Of Mice and Men, Chapters 1–3
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Literary Element: The Speech & Analyze Literature
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -al, -ial
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