upside down
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"It turned our life upside down," said Karen.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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, and more aspiring entrepreneurs are going it alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
From upside down, I could see straight up their noses, all hairy and slimy.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Next to an upside-down garbage can improbably sprouting legs and a head and tinnily broadcasting “God Bless America” is a figure group modeled on the famous image of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Earnings yield is just a year’s worth of estimated earnings divided by the market’s price level—an upside-down price/earnings ratio, in other words—expressed as a percentage.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
But this time a Russian team has filled the space with an upside-down tree and experimental sound performances.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
The upside-down girl released her legs and dropped off the bat’s back.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
