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invert

[in-vurt, in-vurt] / ɪnˈvɜrt, ˈɪn vɜrt /


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But to invert the old saw, the shoe doesn’t always fit.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

The new building will invert the existing Broad museum’s architectural design, with a smooth, gray structure attached to the original construction.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

This caused the VIX futures curve to invert.

From MarketWatch Mar. 3, 2026

Buffett would later invert that payment model, in what became the defining pursuit of his investment career—capitalizing on the insurance industry.

From Barron's Dec. 12, 2025

“We were all trying to solve this quadric the same way, and then I realized we just had to invert the way we were looking at it.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

“Through 2024 and 2025, part of the case for Bitcoin as an institutional allocation rested on an easing cycle ahead; a forecast of tightening inverts that premise,” said Deutsche Bank research analyst Marion Laboure.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Ecuador left-back Piero Hincapie inverts into central midfield.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

When that relationship inverts, the market is saying something specific — that the “value of deliverability and physical security has overtaken the value of global exposure.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 13, 2026

It inverts the First Amendment’s core purpose: protecting speech that persuades, speech that matters, speech people actually hear.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

To avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In a Bicentennial print, the Luiseño artist Fritz Scholder portrays a Native American man clad in an inverted American flag.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Researchers describe this pattern as an inverted U shaped response.

From Science Daily Jun. 2, 2026

Discovery — and inverted the entire meaning of that tradition to mark the adversarial relationship between the press and power.

From Salon Jun. 1, 2026

And when Mikel Arteta took Zinchenko to Arsenal, they played some of their most free-flowing football with inverted full-backs.

From BBC May 22, 2026

It was a strange shape: a small diamond with two inverted points protruding from either side.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

That’s a way of inverting your intuitive, emotional response to a declining market.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2026

While our population pyramid is inverting, people who reach age 65 are now expected to live for at least another 20 years.

From MarketWatch Nov. 25, 2025

To waste your one good death,” he thinks, inverting Mary Oliver’s famous line about putting our one wild precious life to use.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2024

Season 4 circles back to the first’s high notes, inverting nearly everything about it.

From Salon Jan. 14, 2024

It had been used for holding screws, but he tipped those out and wiped the inside with a rag before inverting the glass over it with the card still in place over the mouth.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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