inverse

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The Ashley and Austin side, I knew the inverse graph for both characters would be very satisfying — to me, at least.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Instead of single stocks, the retail crowd has recently been favoring so-called inverse ETFs — that is, funds that allow an investor to benefit when the price of an underlying stock or index falls.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Spielberg’s film, released the year before “Testament,” is a sci-fi fantasy of suburban youth in a universe of expanding possibility—an inverse image of the considerably darker, not-so-improbable science fiction in which Scottie finds himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The point, which fund companies are often at pains to explain to fundholders, is that the leveraged and inverse ETFs are for short-term hedging and tactical bets, not for doubling down on market outcomes.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson