That's true as well in households in which the traditional roles are partially or completely reversed.

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In just the previous two sessions, early tumbles have been minimized or completely reversed.

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Sometimes the cause of coma can be completely reversed and the affected person will regain normal function.

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In fact, everything policymakers thought they knew was true has been completely reversed by the march of technology.

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But the Cabinet Office later completely reversed its position, conceding that a meeting on the matter did take place last summer.

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By doing so, NetFlix completely reversed a situation in which a majority of customers may accept one plan or the other (and some would accept both) to one in which customers now want to actively seek alternatives.

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The middle group with some college education lost far fewer jobs during the recession and those losses reversed almost completely by early 2012.

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Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears patent appeals, reversed, saying in effect the body of the patient was a machine that transformed the thiopurine into something completely new.

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