upside down
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A bricklayer who coaches eight-to-12-year-olds, Cordero is using the football fever whipped up by the World Cup to try to bring a little joy to children whose lives were turned upside down by the disaster.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Some caravan awnings came into grief, there were burst and bent poles and we had a gazebo that was upside down and in a very sorry shape," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
She helps them recognize developmental moments, such as when a child turns a book upright on their own upon realizing it’s upside down, signaling letter recognition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
A meme circulated portraying the Luce with iPhone applications photo-shopped onto the top, and another showing the car upside down and plugged into an iPhone charger.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
She was using a rubber spatula to scoop mashed potatoes out of a pot that Tidings held upside down over a bowl.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
An upside-down OK signal is made with the hand below the waist.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, the situation appears almost upside-down.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
"In the end, we just held on to the upside-down life raft and floated. We were floating at sea for more than three hours," he said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
“One of those upside-down cakes from the magazine?”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
