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

March and April VIX futures are trading with a small inversion and the term structures are rather flat.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 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

Actually, it’s worse than that: It’s an inversion of what really happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Coming from the west, the Pacific trade winds hit the cold air from the Humboldt Current and are forced upward in a classic temperature inversion of the sort common in southern California.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann