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invert

[in-vurt, in-vurt] / ɪnˈvɜrt, ˈɪn vɜrt /


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His ability to invert into midfield, protect the ball in tight spaces and burst away from opposition players are up there with some of the best in the division.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

But to invert the old saw, the shoe doesn’t always fit.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

When demand for “out of the money” calls is much stronger than demand for “at the money” calls, the so-called “call skew” tends to invert.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

The new building will invert the existing Broad museum’s architectural design, with a smooth, gray structure attached to the original construction.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

“We were all trying to solve this quadric the same way, and then I realized we just had to invert the way we were looking at it.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

“Through 2024 and 2025, part of the case for Bitcoin as an institutional allocation rested on an easing cycle ahead; a forecast of tightening inverts that premise,” said Deutsche Bank research analyst Marion Laboure.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Ecuador left-back Piero Hincapie inverts into central midfield.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

Trading the term structure: The VIX futures term structure inverts in times of fear and uncertainty — that is, the front-month VIX futures begin to trade at higher prices than the second-month futures.

From MarketWatch Mar. 12, 2026

It inverts the First Amendment’s core purpose: protecting speech that persuades, speech that matters, speech people actually hear.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

To think of his story as political fodder, and I'm ashamed of that to begin with, but when I stand down here, and hold his grandmother's hand, the world inverts.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

But more importantly, the relationship has resumed its inverted nature.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Baillie says he learned the inverted beer-drinking stunt from his ex-father-in-law, who sounds super cool and nonjudgmental.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Researchers describe this pattern as an inverted U shaped response.

From Science Daily Jun. 2, 2026

An "inverted winger", he attacks from wide on the right flank but then cuts inside, using body feints and rapid shifts in pace to dribble past defenders and shoot with his stronger left foot.

From BBC May 22, 2026

It was a strange shape: a small diamond with two inverted points protruding from either side.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

That’s a way of inverting your intuitive, emotional response to a declining market.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2026

The construct of volatility derivatives has returned to a bullish outlook for stocks, after a brief scare during the week ending Nov. 21, when it appeared that the term structures might be inverting.

From MarketWatch Dec. 4, 2025

To waste your one good death,” he thinks, inverting Mary Oliver’s famous line about putting our one wild precious life to use.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2024

Season 4 circles back to the first’s high notes, inverting nearly everything about it.

From Salon Jan. 14, 2024

That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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