verso
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“Sobekmose,” a masterwork containing about 100 spells, is unusual, in part, because it’s inscribed recto and verso.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Exterior becomes interior — or verso becomes recto — in Leedham’s wittily jumbled tableaux.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
The lawsuit claimed that agreements signed by the jewelers contained illegible contract text in verso and therefore “cannot be binding.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
Why not hang the painting on stanchions, so we can see the Nazi scar on the verso?
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
On the verso was an illustration of a centaur colt—Apple, I was sure—nuzzling a young man—Char.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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Behind the talk of versos and rectos is the awareness that big money is moving into the market.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“I’ve been looking for it everywhere, and I could really use some versos sencillos right now.”
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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The houses were burned; the artillery and versos were taken down the hill.
The plates are arranged as follows, by leaves, the versos being blank: 1.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
Other arms were secured there—twelve or thirteen versos, and more than a hundred arquebuses and muskets; everything else was given to the soldiers as booty, as a reward for their labors.