invert
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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
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“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
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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
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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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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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