inverse

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Spielberg’s film, released the year before “Testament,” is a sci-fi fantasy of suburban youth in a universe of expanding possibility—an inverse image of the considerably darker, not-so-improbable science fiction in which Scottie finds himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It recently retested a bullish inverse head and shoulders pattern just below the very round $300 number and filled in a gap from the Feb. 4 session.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Leveraged and inverse ETFs are for short-term hedging and tactical bets, not for doubling down on market outcomes.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

The literary breaches, while trivial, highlight a reality that has become all too clear: There’s an inverse correlation between power and proper punctuation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr