revert
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Goldman believes the core inflation rate will revert toward the Fed’s 2% target in 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The bus fare cap in England will revert to £2, from the current £3 from January.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
"People may revert to their prior behavioural patterns because the incentive payments are insufficient when the enthusiasm has waned," said Ferraro, an expert in human behaviour and public policy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
To begin the repair process, mature liver cells revert toward a fetal-like progenitor state.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Could the individual Epsilon embryo be made a revert, by a suitable technique, to the normality of dogs and cows?
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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If the liquid cannot be kept cool, it reverts to car temperature, which is considerably higher than ambient.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Whether the baseball team that calls Angel Stadium home reverts to its hometown name remains to be seen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Second, it is unclear whether the Strait of Hormuz reverts to an international waterway—the transit for a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil—or whether it remains under the control of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
At the height of battle, some piece of advanced technology goes kablooey and a grizzled veteran reverts to boots-on-the-ground basics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why...the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather....
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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Trump additionally reverted the name of Denali, North America's highest peak, to its former moniker Mt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Perez hasn’t publicly explained why he has reverted to the coach he let go in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He said, due to the former presence of greenhouses on the land, which then were destroyed and buried under a layer of top soil, it was reverted to agricultural designation.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
For the memorial game, the Feeneys had reverted to their old batting order, so after Greenberg, the lineup would be wholly composed of Feeney elders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Within a millennium, East Polynesian colonists had reverted to hunting-gathering on the Chathams while building a protostate with intensive food production on Hawaii.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Although he did not play, he was subsequently barred from reverting to Scotland at this year's T20 World Cup because he was named as an England substitute fielder in Dublin.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Most of those don’t offer much electric range before reverting to the gas engine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Some analysts argue he’s now reverting to his true nature.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Gyllenhaal has done the latter, it seems, reverting to flattened characters who don’t require bold artistic leaps or personal attachment, and thus don’t cause heartbreak if a film underperforms.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
She’s slipping up on the grooming too, reverting to her old sloppy ways of years ago.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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