reversion

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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

“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

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

“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

This was, in other words, an adaptation of his atmospheric steam engine, or rather a reversion to his earlier plan for a wind-gun powered by atmospheric pressure.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton