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invert

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


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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

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

Less obvious, particularly if you haven’t spent much time on Bourbon Street yourself, is how they invert the truth: Inclusion was not its doom, but its redemption.

From Slate Jan. 7, 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

Trading the term structure: The VIX futures term structure inverts in times of fear and uncertainty — that is, the front-month VIX futures begin to trade at higher prices than the second-month futures.

From MarketWatch Mar. 12, 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 avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Researchers describe this pattern as an inverted U shaped response.

From Science Daily Jun. 2, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

In emerging markets, the ratio has not inverted yet, but the trend is moving in that direction.

From MarketWatch May 15, 2026

There they removed it gingerly from the water, inverted it over their heads, and began a mile-and-a-half portage across Seattle.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

It had been used for holding screws, but he tipped those out and wiped the inside with a rag before inverting the glass over it with the card still in place over the mouth.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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