revert
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Cyclical businesses don’t tend to revert to normal, often reverting to losses, and so he argues, “the time to buy a cyclical business is when they’re making losses, not when they’re making super profits.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
However, it found households "revert to their pre-adoption grocery spending patterns" when they stop taking their medication, and even shift toward slightly less healthy grocery baskets.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
In exchange for the exemption, the team name would revert to the Anaheim Angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Tasnim reported that "the status of the Strait of Hormuz would not revert to its pre-war situation."
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
Maybe old people revert back to when they were young when they get scared.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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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
But the movie needs him to be the baddie, so he reverts to evildoing for no apparent reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Ultimately, equity bulls are hoping the U.S. economy reverts to the “Goldilocks” environment that persisted for much of the 2010s.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 9, 2026
But Zhao and O’Farrell’s screenplay consistently reverts to histrionics and outsized displays of emotion, never once burrowing into how either William or Agnes really feels.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
But on some of these dish-drying nights he reverts to what I consider to be his true self.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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But within just a few months, I’d reverted to my old habits—immediately glancing at and engaging with every ping and alert, and reflexively picking up my phone to scroll through my rotation of go-to websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Tuchel reverted to a back five and made a number of defensive-minded substitutions in the closing stages as Lionel Messi inspired a dramatic comeback.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
Only a few days after the pool was refilled, though, it reverted what it always is: a filthy slime pit that nevertheless does an adequate job of its primary objective: reflecting.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
He reverted to his feelings as a guide in answering Max.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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The new terms fuel fee growth in the second half of this year and the first half of 2027 before annualizing and reverting to a typical high-single-digit percentage growth rate, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Cyclical businesses don’t tend to revert to normal, often reverting to losses, and so he argues, “the time to buy a cyclical business is when they’re making losses, not when they’re making super profits.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Yet she argues those moments are often temporary, with Islanders reverting "back to the expected gender roles".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not help reverting once more to the first, and saying:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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