reversion
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In a way, this move feels like a reversion to the fan magazines of the Old Hollywood era.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
“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
Jones, who accurately predicted the 1987 stock-market crash, said the U.S. is far too “dependent on firm equity prices,” and sees a possible 35% crash in the next few years, based on mean reversion.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
As though her reversion had triggered an end to the fantasy, Lazlo reverted, too, and was himself again.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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The new cases, they add, underscore the need to boost vaccine coverage in order to head off such reversions in the first place.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 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
He opposed strongly the lavish gifts of forfeited estates to court favourites and mistresses, prevented the grant of Phoenix Park to the duchess of Cleveland, and refused to encumber the administration by granting reversions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various