as in to return
to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level
after the national emergency had passed, the political parties abandoned their shotgun unity and reverted to their partisan squabbling
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Recent Examples of revert
His plan suggests reverting property tax bills to 2021 levels.
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Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled the challenge was made four seconds after the one-minute deadline and reverted Chiles’ score to 13.666, putting her back in fifth place.
—Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
There was a timeline where Musk essentially reverted Twitter to its founding ethos—one that had a naive and simplistic idea of real-time global conversation.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024
Photograph: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images As the Pacific Ocean is now likely to revert toward La Niña conditions, global temperatures will continue to ease back but probably not to the levels seen prior to 2023–24.
—Christopher Merchant, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2024
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Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2024
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled the challenge was made four seconds after the one-minute deadline and reverted Chiles’ score to 13.666, putting her back in fifth place.
—Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
There was a timeline where Musk essentially reverted Twitter to its founding ethos—one that had a naive and simplistic idea of real-time global conversation.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2024
Photograph: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images As the Pacific Ocean is now likely to revert toward La Niña conditions, global temperatures will continue to ease back but probably not to the levels seen prior to 2023–24.
—Christopher Merchant, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2024
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“Revert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revert. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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