inversion

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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

That is a ruse, a malicious inversion of reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The inversion of a major interval is minor, and of a minor interval is major.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones