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“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
Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Gold may no longer be trading primarily as an inflation hedge or an inverse bet on interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Newton originally developed the inverse square relation to describe motion within the Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
The implication, carefully cultivated by Newton, is that he had the inverse square law by 1666, long before any discussions between Halley, Hooke and Wren.
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
We will now practice using the properties of identities, inverses, and zero to simplify expressions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
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
In these cases, there may be more than one way to restrict the domain, leading to different 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
Vocabulary lists containing inverse
Opposites Attract
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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