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reverse

[ri-vurs] / rɪˈvɜrs /






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An El Niño develops when winds that typically blow east-to-west weaken or reverse.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit -- the smartphone.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The European Central Bank is likely to hike in June but then reverse that next year, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Shin’s long collaboration with Tobias Adrian produced the seminal paper “Liquidity and Leverage,” which mapped how mark-to-market balance sheets turn rising asset prices into procyclical leverage — and how the reverse produces violent feedback loops.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Microfiltration, reverse osmosis, ultraviolet radiation, and abracadabra—they turned the county’s last day of raw sewage into nearly fifty thousand gallons of drinkable water.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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