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invert

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


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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

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

It was time to invert one of the most fundamental shots in the sport.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 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

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

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

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

The markings anticipated the inverted red triangle that is a symbol of Hamas today.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

Through Guardiola's use of midfielders as inverted full-backs and having technical players across the pitch, City have always dominated possession under him.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Except for the fact that the colors were inverted, they looked exactly like the elevators in the Empire State Building, the entrance to Olympus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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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