obverse

Example Sentences

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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

A Commonwealth observer group was also in the country to obverse the coming elections, seen as a "significant step in the country's democratic governance", they added.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2023

He is a week or so shy of 77 and when viewed in profile, he looks like the portrait they’d use if they put Neil Young’s face on the obverse of the loonie.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2022

The painted ceramic, valued at $100,000, features a seated youthful warrior surrounded by figures with offerings on its obverse.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

He knew the article because it was the ugly obverse of the real story, the one that lived inside him.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez