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inversion

noun as in transposition

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Fittingly, “In My Life” features producer George Martin’s wistful piano solo, which he later described as his “Bach inversion.”

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An inversion layer — a weather phenomenon that acts like a lid on the blaze — lifted and the fire “started throwing some spots,” he said, referring to tossing embers that ignite spot fires.

MAGA’s stereotypes make for a perfect inversion of reality — especially because delusion is the state in which they need to live.

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The most consequential of those inversions involves attitudes toward courts and judges.

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They were more like pathetic background extras, or bizarro-world inversions of the starving children from charity ads of bygone years: You can save Farmer Piet from white genocide, or you can turn the page.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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