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

The obverse of art for Dyer is tennis.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 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

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee