upside down
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It used a downforce-generating fan system to remain stuck upside down, and then blasted free, flipped—this was the flying part—and touched down amid a cloud of compressed air.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Humans, for instance, can drink through a straw while upside down and still breathe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Pugh said the incident "turned my life upside down".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Alongside pineapple upside down cakes and chocolate chip cookies, customers can buy Phillips’s book about the case, “The Cost of My Faith.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Darkness lifted up a pouch the size of Nathan’s backpack and turned it upside down.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
Cathy, meanwhile, deciphers the key to life through Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” a story about a girl like her who survives an upside-down world.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Local television has broadcast images of the upside-down ferry in the water, with people wearing life vests atop its hull.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Images broadcast by Turkish television showed the upside-down ferry in the water, with people wearing life vests atop its orange hull.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
“That was not flying,” said Roz, looking back at her upside-down son.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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