inverse

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The Ashley and Austin side, I knew the inverse graph for both characters would be very satisfying — to me, at least.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Instead of single stocks, the retail crowd has recently been favoring so-called inverse ETFs — that is, funds that allow an investor to benefit when the price of an underlying stock or index falls.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

McMurtry’s stark assessment grew in part from a vexation that, despite his lifelong project to demythologize the cowboy, the ultimate American icon, his most celebrated book had the inverse effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 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

Meanwhile, as though in inverse ratio to the vanishing voice, the invoked ghost of the man whom she could neither forgive nor revenge herself upon began to assume a quality almost of solidity, permanence.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner