inversion
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Ultimately, how far the financial sector will decline will largely depend on the yield curve, and with the hiking cycle still in its early innings, the curve appears to be headed toward an inversion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“It’s also an inversion of a medieval mystery play where the Earth Mother is not benevolent. It’s also a fun, nifty stage thriller.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
To investigate the discrepancy, the team used a technique called inversion, which works backward from observed tsunami behavior to estimate the characteristics of the earthquake that generated it.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
We cannot pretend to understand what such causality inversion means.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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While past U.S. recessions occurred about a year after inversions, there have been “three notable false positives,” according to researchers at the Cleveland Fed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is unique in that it is a 72 mph ride with vehicles created to rotate 360 degrees through multiple inversions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Chromosomal inversions do more than preserve helpful traits.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Pollution spikes are common in the city of nearly 400,000, especially during thermal inversions when a layer of warm air sits above a layer of cold air, trapping smog over the mountain-ringed city.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
In temperature inversions, air movement is inhibited—the cold air can't rise and the warm air doesn’t fall—which in turn inhibits rainfall.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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