obverse

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In October 2024, for the abolition quarter, the panel picked a Douglass image on the obverse, or front, and a reverse design showing a shackled hand and a fist breaking free.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

The coin also features an image of the late Queen Elizabeth II on its obverse side, and a UH-1H helicopter on the reverse.

From BBC • May 5, 2023

In On Animals, a new collection of old essays, veteran journalist Susan Orlean is almost the obverse of wonder-seeking naturalists like David Attenborough.

From Scientific American • Oct. 31, 2021

Barnacled and throttled, the underside of the Santa Monica Pier is the shadowed obverse of the cheery tourist destination above it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

But to study cancer, I realized, is to also study its obverse.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee