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Reversal

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Reversal may refer to:

  • Medical reversal, when a medical intervention falls out of use after improved clinical trials demonstrate its ineffectiveness or harmfulness.
  • Reversal (law), the setting aside of a decision of a lower court by a higher court
  • In drama, "reversal" refers to Aristotle's concept of Peripeteia
  • Reversal film, a type of photographic film also known as slide or transparency film
  • The Reversal, a novel by Michael Connelly
  • Reversal of polarization (disambiguation)
  • Reversal (wrestling), in which the defensive contender achieves an offensive position
  • Reversal (film), a movie about wrestling
  • Reversal, an options-trading strategy
  • Reversal of a word in formal language
  • "Reversal" (Arrow), an episode of Arrow
  • Russian reversal is a type of joke, usually starting with the words "In Soviet Russia", in which the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, commonly as a snowclone pattern

See also

  • Reverse (disambiguation)
  • Reversion (disambiguation)
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