invert
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If Russell could not do so, they said, they would "invert the cars" - put Antonelli into the lead to try himself.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
But to invert the old saw, the shoe doesn’t always fit.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 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
“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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“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
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
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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
Researchers describe this pattern as an inverted U shaped response.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
The one was inverted and the two zeros here were running concurrently instead of consecutively.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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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