inversion
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In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Alison Des Forges, then a senior adviser to Human Rights Watch, pointed to genocide inversion as a central means of justifying the genocide against the Tutsis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
For Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, this may be a harbinger of a “risk-off summer,” especially if it coincides with a yield-curve inversion and a breakdown in tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Allen, from what I can tell, was not advocating for social revolution, or a total inversion of the market economy, or the consecration of a Marxist state.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
The inversion of a major interval is minor, and of a minor interval is major.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is unique in that it is a 72 mph ride with vehicles created to rotate 360 degrees through multiple inversions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Chromosomal inversions do more than preserve helpful traits.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Pollution spikes are common in the city, especially during thermal inversions when a layer of warm air sits above a layer of cold air, trapping smog over the city.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
The most consequential of those inversions involves attitudes toward courts and judges.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025
In temperature inversions, air movement is inhibited—the cold air can't rise and the warm air doesn’t fall—which in turn inhibits rainfall.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Vocabulary lists containing inversion
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Genetics - Middle School
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