upside down
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She said news that she had stage four alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in September 2015 turned her life upside down.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
A bricklayer who coaches eight-to-12-year-olds, Cordero is using the football fever whipped up by the World Cup to try to bring a little joy to children whose lives were turned upside down by the disaster.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Sandy hung there for about 7 min upside down, then dropped all the way with wings spread.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
A nasty spat over a huge collection of allegedly stolen Star Wars Lego sets has turned this quiet suburb upside down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
In their place, great garlands of sticks and leaves hung above him, as though a tree were growing upside down from the ceiling.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
We haven’t even gotten to Messi’s generational rival, 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, who’s likely in a hotel gym door somewhere doing repeated upside-down crunches in preparation for Portugal’s opener at 1 p.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
But this time a Russian team has filled the space with an upside-down tree and experimental sound performances.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Now more than ever, we need books such as “In the Fields of Fatherless Children,” to help us make sense of, and right, our upside-down world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, the situation appears almost upside-down.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
There must be one of those hooped contraptions underneath, for the skirt billows outward from her waist like an upside-down teacup.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
