inversion

Example Sentences

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He says that men should watch out for lumps, pain, discomfort or nipple inversion.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Using the buoy data in a technique known as inversion, the team reexamined the source of the tsunami.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025

That is a ruse, a malicious inversion of reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The distinction between the two “races” of flies by virtue of a single chromosomal inversion was the most dramatic example of genetic variation that any geneticist had ever seen in a natural population.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee