invert
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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
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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
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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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
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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
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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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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