upside down
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An investigation has been launched and local police cautioned anyone hoping to go looking for more treasure that the site had been "turned upside down" and the gold moved to a secure location.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The car had flipped during the crash, leaving most of the vehicle upside down and underwater, according to a photo shared from the scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Turn a tire upside down or on its side, and the water will flow within it to whatever section is now at the bottom.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
AI is turning that assumption upside down as more entrepreneurs go it alone, with a growing class generating over $1 million in revenue without hiring a single employee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
But this world was about to be turned upside down.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
We haven’t even gotten to Messi’s generational rival, 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, who’s likely in a hotel gym door somewhere doing repeated upside-down crunches in preparation for Portugal’s opener at 1 p.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 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
“The question is impossible,” she declared from her upside-down position.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
