obverse
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In October 2024, for the abolition quarter, the panel picked a Douglass image on the obverse, or front, and a reverse design showing a shackled hand and a fist breaking free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
A Commonwealth observer group was also in the country to obverse the coming elections, seen as a "significant step in the country's democratic governance", they added.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
In On Animals, a new collection of old essays, veteran journalist Susan Orlean is almost the obverse of wonder-seeking naturalists like David Attenborough.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 31, 2021
Barnacled and throttled, the underside of the Santa Monica Pier is the shadowed obverse of the cheery tourist destination above it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
But to study cancer, I realized, is to also study its obverse.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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