topsy-turvy
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After a Mississippi judge granted Chambliss an injunction in February, he will now return for his sixth collegiate season as the highest-profile embodiment of the topsy-turvy world of college football in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A competitive convention would have been a delightfully exotic twist to such a topsy-turvy campaign in Maine.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The topsy-turvy nature of the contest continued in the final set, but it was Gauff who was able to raise her level when it mattered.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
In the sleepy world of trust planning, the topsy-turvy stock market is creating big tax-savings opportunities.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Everything was topsy-turvy: the originals were fake; the fakes were original.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
It falls and overturns the second, which, in the same way, topsy-turvies the third; and so on, right to the end of the row.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Something has turned her poor little mind topsy-turvies.
From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
