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flip

[flip] / flɪp /




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But executives told investors that will likely flip during the remainder of the year due to higher commodity prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Now, she’d celebrate with a flip if she could do one.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Some 28% go for the coin flip, compared with just 11% among the over-65s - their grandparents' generation.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Silver, a math-forward thinker, clearly believes in the expected value of the coin flip.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

The pages of my mind flip back once more to the snowy afternoon when I’d run into her room to find her staring out the window.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

One ex-house flipper said he’d experimented with 50 AI-generated business ideas before landing on one he liked.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Porkchop, a turtle rescued from the river last year, lost a flipper after a fishing line severely constricted the limb.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Adams said they’re trying to do reconstructive surgery on the nerve-damaged flipper to make it as functional as possible.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

Formally known as CM2502, Porkchop got her nickname when she chowed down shortly after losing her front right flipper, which was severely constricted by fishing line.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

And he held out his flipper and shook hands limply with them both.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier’s.

From Time Jan. 27, 2015

His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier's.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the show doesn’t start until the 79-year-old De Shields nattily flips his jacket open, to the approving roar of the audience.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Every single one of her signature ponytail flips sent the room into hysterics.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Either the system remains unchanged, which is the behavior of bosons, or the system flips sign, which is what happens with fermions.

From Science Daily May 9, 2026

Ten-year yields are just starting to roll over as daily momentum flips negative.

From Barron's Apr. 17, 2026

Zoey traps the ball with her heel, flips it up, and starts juggling again.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

It flipped from net buyer to net seller of foreign bonds in December 2025, and by February was selling them off at the fastest monthly pace since 2024.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

But it bounced right to pitcher Brooks Raley, who flipped the ball to the plate to eventually snare Tucker in a rundown between third and home.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

More recently, chip stocks flipped within days from powering the market to entering their own bear trend.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The MV Barima was traveling from the capital Georgetown to Port Kaituma in Guyana's inland Essequibo region when it flipped over on Saturday night.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Katherine followed him quickly, executing a gymnastic-like move at the end, when she flipped over onto her feet.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A few metres away, his mother Beatrice was busy ladling out and flipping crepes spread from brim to brim with a generous layer of chocolate-hazelnut spread.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

You have the choice of instantly receiving £50,000 or flipping a coin for a 50/50 chance of £1m.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

A simple comparison is repeatedly flipping a coin to decide whether to move one way or another.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

“That’s what art is,” she says, flipping it again.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Jeff was flipping through a stack of comics he had taken down from a shelf.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott




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