invert
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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
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
“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
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It points to potentially lower long-term bond yields as the yield curve inverts, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“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
Regardless, this strategy has produced large profits when the term structure inverts and the VIX futures trade at large discounts for extended periods of time.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 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
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The narrator relates his implausible wanderings around an inverted empire in which there is no center of power or culture, a world that seems to be all peripheries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Two years ago, the yield curve was inverted, with 3-month U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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
Left-back Theo Hernandez took a more inverted position, as did Olise from the right wing.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Sherman put on his cap shield and put an inverted Auk casement on the table.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Left-back Andy Robertson is instead positioned on the left wing with winger Omar Marmoush inverting into an attacking midfield position.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
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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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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