flip
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There’s also a risk on the flip side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
And the $12.5 billion he will receive from the Lakers flip is only a drop in the bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The title track, which emphasizes the rapper’s new level of stardom, is anchored by a gleaming flip of Linda Clifford’s “Never Gonna Stop,” just four notes circling in a bewitching loop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Regulation of these contracts should not be a legal coin flip decided by which courthouse a company gets sued in.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Still, I flip this one over to make sure there’s nothing important written on the other side.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
In fact, as with Porkchop, it was wound tightly around her front right flipper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Solid in build though they were, like tanks, they were neither fast nor powerful swimmers; with just one hand gripped around a back flipper, it was possible to hold on to a turtle.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
That does not mean the weather suddenly changes when the calendar flips to 1 September.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Online videos have shown Unitree robots performing back flips and cartwheels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In fact, of course, the chances of a coin coming up heads are 50% with each flip, and they have nothing to do with how many heads or tails came in prior flips.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Woo reaches down, snatches a couple of plantains, and flips back onto the top of the tent to devour his newly acquired treats.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Woods was involved in a March 27 road accident in Florida in which his vehicle clipped a truck pulling a trailer and flipped on its side while attempting to pass on a residential road.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
If a charted instrument falls below that line after an extended period above it, that can be viewed as a warning that the trend may have flipped from rising to falling.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
The mother of a girl who was crushed by a bus and trapped after it flipped while the family were on their first ever holiday abroad has urged people not to "scrimp" on travel insurance.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Today, the ratio has flipped: 60% of TOV’s furniture comes from Vietnam, versus 25% from China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
He flipped open the cover and read the flap, his mouth pressed into a line, his eyebrows knit together.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
She joked during final media commitments about flipping the table just to disrupt the monotony.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
By flipping out at anyone who brings it up, they’re only ensuring more people are paying attention.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
This fallacy is perhaps best understood in the context of flipping a coin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Walter’s flipping of the franchise netted him a $2.5-billion profit after only 14 months of ownership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Outside, Elena is on the same spot of the bench, flipping to the next page in her book.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
