inverse
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Gold futures, which often move in the inverse direction to the dollar, rose $16.80, or 0.4%, to $4380.40 a troy ounce, registering a modest gain for the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Leveraged and inverse ETFs have been a significant part of the recent surge, according to Sotiroff.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The most dynamic category is inverse and leveraged products, now allowed for single stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The technical chart of the TLT shows the inverse makeup of the 30-year rate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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
We call functions like this, inverses of one another.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We will now practice using the properties of identities, inverses, and zero to simplify expressions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We can solve exponential equations with base by applying the natural logarithm of both sides because exponential and logarithmic functions are inverses of each other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
TRY IT #1 Show that and are inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
In this chapter, we will investigate matrices and their inverses, and various ways to use matrices to solve systems of equations.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
He told Aaron to wear No. 2 and Andrew to wear No. 5 thinking, somewhat fancifully, that the inversed numbers might confuse opponents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2014
Words by Alex Klein Photography by Mike O'Meally and Skin Phillips Australia: land of inversed summers, succulent skateparks, glorious beaches, and beautiful women.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. convex, exp. and inversed, striate, brown then grey; g. adnato-decur. veined, branched, distant, white or glaucous; s. 3-5 cm. fistulose, glabrous, thickened upwards; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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