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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

It points to potentially lower long-term bond yields as the yield curve inverts, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“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

The deft inverts the usual ordering: the new information is thrust into the spotlight early, and the given information, which serves as its background, comes at the end.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Two years ago, the yield curve was inverted, with 3-month U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

Even 2001’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” eventually reveals itself as a kind of inverted first-contact story, with humanity becoming the vanished civilization studied by synthetic descendants of the machines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

I inverted the linings in my other pocket.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

While our population pyramid is inverting, people who reach age 65 are now expected to live for at least another 20 years.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 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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