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[flip] / flɪp /




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At the end of the day, I am a realist; anything can flip a person’s switch from off to blackout rage.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Arduous tests loom during the second half of the season, however, making the chances of getting the nod from the CFP selection committee a coin flip at best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Local media reports suggest the school received new doors in 2022 which can lock classrooms with a flip of a switch.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Those electrons can flip their own spins in ways that partially cancel the magnetic moment of the embedded atom.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The thought made something in her stomach flip, and not in an excited way.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Even if you look slightly farther afield—specifically to a Montecito home that was bought by A-list home flipper Ellen DeGeneres in November 2025—it’s clear that price estimates don’t always reflect a home’s true value.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The three-bedroom, one-bath home was dilapidated before an out-of-state house flipper fixed it up, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

One ex-house flipper said he’d experimented with 50 AI-generated business ideas before landing on one he liked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"I picked it up and thought I saw a movement in one flipper, so I carried it back to the campsite".

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

He slapped the ground with his flipper arm.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier’s.

From Time ● Jan. 27, 2015

His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although this method requires substantial computing power, it can plan difficult movements such as aerial flips, sharp turns, and aggressive changes in body angle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The song flips both “Romeo” and “Always Be There” by aughts-defining electronic duo Basement Jaxx and turns it into a thumping dance pop tune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The idea flips the conventional hybrid concept: Instead of supplementing a gas engine with a small battery, the gas engine would feed power to the battery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

That does not mean the weather suddenly changes when the calendar flips to 1 September.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Zoey traps the ball with her heel, flips it up, and starts juggling again.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

Nasdaq futures inched up 0.1% after the index flipped sharp intraday losses Thursday to end the session higher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

When a call is overturned, Baseball Savant measures the difference in run expectancy between the situation before the pitch/challenge and the situation after the call is flipped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Zeta-Jones said they "flipped it" for her to be a woman with all the quirkiness and craziness that Jack had in the book.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But that gap has nearly vanished, and last week the spread briefly flipped negative for the first time since 2019, according to Dow Jones Energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

She flipped the lid up and went into raptures about the fried chicken and potato salad.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"We were just flipping out," says 2wei's Simon Heeger.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

In those famous cases that led to crises, the Fed was flipping the narrative; in this case, it is simply trying to find a level of rates that would put some downward pressure on inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Williams said Greta was freed within five minutes of the bus flipping, and was taken to Ozel Manavgat Eslem Hastenesi hospital, alongside the driver, by ambulance.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Lyons had ruffled feathers by flipping an organizational chart upside down at a sales meeting and urging the sales force to challenge conventional wisdom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Now do it again,” Mr. Stokely said after flipping me the ball.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman


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