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upside down



upside-down


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It used a downforce-generating fan system to remain stuck upside down, and then blasted free, flipped—this was the flying part—and touched down amid a cloud of compressed air.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Humans, for instance, can drink through a straw while upside down and still breathe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

A maintenance worker whose life was "turned upside down" when he fell 30ft from a power line and was left paralysed has won at least £10m in compensation.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Alongside pineapple upside down cakes and chocolate chip cookies, customers can buy Phillips’s book about the case, “The Cost of My Faith.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

He spun the water around the fish and easily turned it upside down.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Other setbacks included the discovery of a 109-yard upside-down arch designed by the Victorians to reduce flooding—a finding described by Network Rail as the “point of no return” for the closure of the road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Cathy, meanwhile, deciphers the key to life through Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” a story about a girl like her who survives an upside-down world.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

They had their lives and livelihoods turned upside-down due to the now dropped charges, the lawyers said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Images broadcast by Turkish television showed the upside-down ferry in the water, with people wearing life vests atop its orange hull.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

There must be one of those hooped contraptions underneath, for the skirt billows outward from her waist like an upside-down teacup.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli


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