inverse
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The spot, released only 24 hours after El-Sayed’s, carries a message that is the direct inverse of the Michigan candidate’s.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
And, instead of being tied to new auto sales, that actually has an inverse correlation with maintenance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Brand new chanel$” is poised to be a song off of a potential upcoming project, which is expected to be an inverse, “brother album” to “Worst Girl in America.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
They do so in a quantitative way, screening for stocks whose rolling six-month, one-day percentage change is the inverse of the S&P 500 daily’s movements.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Whatever, there is no doubt that when Halley did visit Newton they discussed planetary orbits and the inverse square law.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
TRY IT #2 Show that the following two matrices are inverses of each other.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We have found inverses of function defined by ordered pairs and from a graph.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Similar properties hold for the other trigonometric functions and their inverses.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
We can solve exponential equations with base by applying the natural logarithm of both sides because exponential and logarithmic functions are inverses of each other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
For the following exercises, use a calculator to solve the system of equations with matrix inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
He told Aaron to wear No. 2 and Andrew to wear No. 5 thinking, somewhat fancifully, that the inversed numbers might confuse opponents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2014
Words by Alex Klein Photography by Mike O'Meally and Skin Phillips Australia: land of inversed summers, succulent skateparks, glorious beaches, and beautiful women.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. convex, exp. and inversed, striate, brown then grey; g. adnato-decur. veined, branched, distant, white or glaucous; s. 3-5 cm. fistulose, glabrous, thickened upwards; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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