inversion
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Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
That inversion of a Nixon-era statement seems especially apt for the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee this coming week, which will be the first for Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
What’s happened in tech media the past few years has been an inversion of that old principle often attributed to William Randolph Hearst.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
The inversion, first flagged by the X account of Fiscal.ai, points to a change in how investors are viewing Microsoft and the other tech companies that are shelling out billions to build AI infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
The inversion of an augmented interval is diminished and of a diminished interval is augmented.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is unique in that it is a 72 mph ride with vehicles created to rotate 360 degrees through multiple inversions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"While our study focused on cichlids, chromosomal inversions aren't unique to them," said co-senior author Professor Richard Durbin, from Cambridge's Department of Genetics.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Pollution spikes are common in the city of nearly 400,000, especially during thermal inversions when a layer of warm air sits above a layer of cold air, trapping smog over the mountain-ringed city.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
The Nursey album also points to remarkable inversions of gender dynamics.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
In temperature inversions, air movement is inhibited—the cold air can't rise and the warm air doesn’t fall—which in turn inhibits rainfall.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing inversion
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Genetics - Middle School
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