the other way around

Example Sentences

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But lately, things have been working the other way around — helping to fuel what has been, by some measures, a historic stock-market comeback after a difficult first quarter.

From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026

“I think my tennis level is still able to improve and get better, but it’s starting to hit that wall,” he said, whereas earlier in his career it was the other way around.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

"The process is inherently driven by appreciators pulling the conformists upward, but not the other way around," says Dr. Snitkovsky.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

"But yet the other way around, we seem to be penalized for it."

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

It took the correspondence to recover the friendship, not the other way around.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis