revert
verb (used without object)
to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc..
had reverted
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past perfectof revert.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Yu Ruoh-rong, a professor at Taipei-based research institution Academia Sinica, said that while the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with loneliness, her research indicated that most Taiwanese people had reverted back to their previous social lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
Australian news outlets reported that some restaurants had closed, while others had reverted to an analog approach, with some workers taking orders with pens and paper.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Microsoft 365 Status later said it had reverted an update and saw an improvement in service — soon confirming recovery for impacted services.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
But on Friday it appeared that we had reverted to one of our standard rainy, windy, stormy, summertime evenings: one that crackled with lightning and was perhaps fearsome but fortunately not tragic.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern.
From "1984" by George Orwell
