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reversion

[ri-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn] / rɪˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən /
NOUN
reversal
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NOUN
return to a former state
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STRONG


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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

We’re just not wired to think about mean reversion.

From MarketWatch May 12, 2026

“However, as the natural gas market looks ahead to early summer, any seeming reversion to the recent trend of hotter summers could stir bullish sentiment,” Eli Rubin of EBW Analytics says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

“If you think about the periodicity of significant bear markets, since 1970 we get kind of a mean reversion about on average every 10 years,” he said.

From Barron's Apr. 29, 2026

In the days that followed, the reversion to a strict shift system dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Experts say these reversions, though disappointing, seem to be extremely rare, and the vaccine appears much more genetically stable than its predecessor.

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

Careful breeding from the reversions will enable us in each case to determine the number and nature of the factors concerned, and in illustration of this we may take another example from rabbits.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett




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