reversal
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Blackstone will limit redemptions from the $79 billion fund to 5%, a reversal from its strategy in March when it opted to pay the full amount requested.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Optical stocks had been on a hot streak recently, but are showing a sharp reversal Thursday after underwhelming results from networking company Ciena.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Dismayed at the policy reversal, she left the ATF last spring, after 21 years, and joined Everytown, the gun-safety group founded by Michael Bloomberg.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Those reversal patterns helped spark a powerful recovery rally back toward the $500 area.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Embedded in the history of the gene is “the quest for eternal youth, the Faustian myth of abrupt reversal of fortune, and our own century’s flirtation with the perfectibility of man.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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