revert to

phrasal verb

reverted to; reverting to; reverts to

: to go back or return to (an earlier state, condition, situation, etc.)

She has reverted (back) to her old habits.

My blood pressure has reverted to normal.

After playing badly in the last two games, he seems to have reverted to (is previous) form.

law, of property : to be given to (a former owner or a former owner's heir)

The estate reverted to a distant cousin.

Examples of revert to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Such a trend would have a negative autocorrelation — the average tends to revert to the mean over time. —

G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2024 The Giants reverted to their worst tendencies, stranding runners and running into outs, and their first game of reliever roulette went south quickly. —

Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024 Israel could also revert to the ways of its yearslong shadow war with Iran, orchestrating some kind of bloodless cyberattack or relying on spy craft and covert actions against Iranian interests, inside or outside Iran, without claiming responsibility for them. —

Michael Levenson, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024 Once the event was over, the animals reverted to normal behavior. —

Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024 The project, first revealed in January, was the subject of a heated bidding war in the winter, with Warners coming out on top, thanks to a unique deal that will see some of the movie’s rights reverting to the filmmaker over the course of several decades. —

Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024 Fedora Rawhide will be reverted to xz-5.4.x shortly, and once that is done, Fedora Rawhide instances can safely be redeployed. —

Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 2 Apr. 2024 Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician. —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024 The company reverted to its original business of helping students find financial aid and began emphasizing its use of artificial intelligence. —

Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024

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