reversal

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  1. noun The act or an instance of reversing.
  2. noun The state of being reversed.
  3. noun A usually adverse change in fortune: financial reversals.

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  • Leave a Reply vasectomy reversal - men who have previously undergone vasectomy may later decide for a variety of reasons that they wish to have another child. no matter how many years since the vasectomy, a reversal is possible. —  Interactive Health
  • Leave a Reply vasectomy reversal - men who have previously undergone vasectomy may later decide for a variety of reasons that they wish to have another child. no matter how many years since the vasectomy, a reversal is possible. emergefit: Funny, I own a gym -- at my house no less, and I stil come u ... —  Interactive Health
  • The slender reed that supported this reversal was a concern about the hypothetical impacts the two developments might have on the water in the Metolius and Deschutes River basins. —  BlueOregon
  • Roberts hit a switch and caught Pier's head for a reversal, then added two near-fall points with a turn using legs and a power half-nelson.
  • In a stunning reversal, the anti-labor Wall Street Journal editorial page admitted today that one of the key messages in Big Business's fight against the Employee Free Choice Act is —  Think Progress
 

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