That's reversing the logical order of things.
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Reversing
Synonyms for "reversing" (39 found)
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Noun(6 words)
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Noun(10 words)
invertinvertiblemirror patternoverrulingoverturnoverturningoverturning a rulingoverturning of policyoverturning orderretrograde
Related words (19)
Noun(13 words)
reversalreversereverse operationreverse-directionreversiblerevokestring reversaltime-reversingturnaroundturning pointsundoundo policyunscrambling
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16 entriesactionadjectiveadministrative actionalgorithmic stepchangedata manipulationdecision changedescriptorinverse operationmathematical operationoperationpolicy changepolitical actionprocessstate changetransformation
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16 entriesarray reversalbackwarddirection reversalinverse functioninverse mappinginvertermotion-reversingpolarity reversalpolicy reversalregulatory reversalreverse-directionreversersequence-reversingstring reversaltime-reversingtrend reversal
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12 entriesdirection reversalpolarity reversalpolicy reversalreversing actionreversing directionreversing gearreversing mechanismreversing operationreversing processreversing valvestring reversaltemporal reversal
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10 total sentences available.
Practise reversing the car into the garage.
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Because forests are massive sponges of carbon dioxide, reversing their loss would play an outsize role in fighting climate change.
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Here, our expectations are spread over the reversing of the sheep's skins dried by the descendants of Koceila who wipe their faces for centuries, hoping to erase the humiliations they have suffered, as well as us, when the looters arose.
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