invert
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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
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
Less obvious, particularly if you haven’t spent much time on Bourbon Street yourself, is how they invert the truth: Inclusion was not its doom, but its redemption.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 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
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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
When that relationship inverts, the market is saying something specific — that the “value of deliverability and physical security has overtaken the value of global exposure.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 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
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
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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
In a Bicentennial print, the Luiseño artist Fritz Scholder portrays a Native American man clad in an inverted American flag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
Some scientists think that when expansion is followed by contraction, when the spectra of distant galaxies are all blue-shifted, causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
It had been used for holding screws, but he tipped those out and wiped the inside with a rag before inverting the glass over it with the card still in place over the mouth.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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