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This savage, amoral and unfeeling Robin Hood has been written to invert everything modern fans like about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

The VIX/SPY hedge: When volatility increases and the term structures invert, it is also the case that VIX futures begin to trade at discounts to VIX.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

Buffett would later invert that payment model, in what became the defining pursuit of his investment career—capitalizing on the insurance industry.

From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025

“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

Regardless, this strategy has produced large profits when the term structure inverts and the VIX futures trade at large discounts for extended periods of time.

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 avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It has also been a career of resilience, though Beaumont jokingly refers to her dad's speech at her wedding in which he used that word in inverted commas to mean "stubborn" instead.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

Researchers describe this pattern as an inverted U shaped response.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

Discovery — and inverted the entire meaning of that tradition to mark the adversarial relationship between the press and power.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

Over and over, in the years after 1647, scientists filled long glass tubes, sealed at one end, with mercury and inverted them in baths of mercury.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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