reversion
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“While it is difficult to predict the exact timing of a steel price reversion from the currently elevated levels, for now we believe Sims remains a key beneficiary,” says RBC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
There was still time for some curious changes and an all too familiar reversion to type at Fulham on the final day as the limp visitors suffered a 17th league defeat of the campaign.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
With those strategies, reversion to the mean didn’t mean very much.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Instead he mapped out a scenario in which a reversion to the mean price-to-earnings ratios of the past 25 to 30 years would happen sometime in the next few years.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
This was, in other words, an adaptation of his atmospheric steam engine, or rather a reversion to his earlier plan for a wind-gun powered by atmospheric pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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But because these reversions are rare events, the new vaccine’s true worth could not be known until it was used widely under close scrutiny.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 19, 2023
She added that, of course, tactical reversions to the ancient and “primitive” were recurrent modernist tropes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
As Bob Dylan reversions a song for a compilation EP that turns classic tunes into same-sex wedding tracks, we look at how gender lyrics have evolved over the years.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2018
According to the figures, state officials had estimated that there would be $30 million in reversions, or temporary reductions, from state agencies for the year.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2015
I have previously referred to the associations of ideas arising from ancestral reversions of memory, and from the principles of minimum muscular action and harmonic excitation.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison