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invert

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


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His ability to invert into midfield, protect the ball in tight spaces and burst away from opposition players are up there with some of the best in the division.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

The new building will invert the existing Broad museum’s architectural design, with a smooth, gray structure attached to the original construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

The VIX/SPY hedge: When volatility increases and the term structures invert, it is also the case that VIX futures begin to trade at discounts to VIX.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

“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

To think of his story as political fodder, and I'm ashamed of that to begin with, but when I stand down here, and hold his grandmother's hand, the world inverts.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Balshaw is essentially an inverted Arthur Fery - the French-born British number one who became a household name with a stunning run to the Wimbledon semi-finals in July.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Two years ago, the yield curve was inverted, with 3-month U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

In a Bicentennial print, the Luiseño artist Fritz Scholder portrays a Native American man clad in an inverted American flag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

I open and close my eyes a few times, but the world remains inverted.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

“Comedy is illegal again,” he jokes, inverting a hugely annoying comment made by Elon Musk in the early days of Trump’s second term.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

While our population pyramid is inverting, people who reach age 65 are now expected to live for at least another 20 years.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 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

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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