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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

This caused the VIX futures curve to invert.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 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

Researchers describe this pattern as an inverted U shaped response.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

Discovery — and inverted the entire meaning of that tradition to mark the adversarial relationship between the press and power.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

As Gray worked with old, yellowing scans of Lee’s drawings in Photoshop, he accidentally inverted the colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

A funnel of mosquitoes, like an inverted dunce cap, whined over her head.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

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