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invert

[in-vurt, in-vurt] / ɪnˈvɜrt, ˈɪn vɜrt /


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This savage, amoral and unfeeling Robin Hood has been written to invert everything modern fans like about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

But to invert the old saw, the shoe doesn’t always fit.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

When demand for “out of the money” calls is much stronger than demand for “at the money” calls, the so-called “call skew” tends to invert.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

Buffett would later invert that payment model, in what became the defining pursuit of his investment career—capitalizing on the insurance industry.

From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025

“We were all trying to solve this quadric the same way, and then I realized we just had to invert the way we were looking at it.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

“Through 2024 and 2025, part of the case for Bitcoin as an institutional allocation rested on an easing cycle ahead; a forecast of tightening inverts that premise,” said Deutsche Bank research analyst Marion Laboure.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Ecuador left-back Piero Hincapie inverts into central midfield.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

When that relationship inverts, the market is saying something specific — that the “value of deliverability and physical security has overtaken the value of global exposure.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026

It inverts the First Amendment’s core purpose: protecting speech that persuades, speech that matters, speech people actually hear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

The deft inverts the usual ordering: the new information is thrust into the spotlight early, and the given information, which serves as its background, comes at the end.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But more importantly, the relationship has resumed its inverted nature.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

As a result, the system can generate trajectories that correspond to stretched, blurred, or inverted arrows of time.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026

Even 2001’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” eventually reveals itself as a kind of inverted first-contact story, with humanity becoming the vanished civilization studied by synthetic descendants of the machines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

The markings anticipated the inverted red triangle that is a symbol of Hamas today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

However, the only swimming scene left intact by the English censor was an inverted reflection from a pool of water.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

That’s a way of inverting your intuitive, emotional response to a declining market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

The construct of volatility derivatives has returned to a bullish outlook for stocks, after a brief scare during the week ending Nov. 21, when it appeared that the term structures might be inverting.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

To waste your one good death,” he thinks, inverting Mary Oliver’s famous line about putting our one wild precious life to use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Season 4 circles back to the first’s high notes, inverting nearly everything about it.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2024

That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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