inversion
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“It’s also an inversion of a medieval mystery play where the Earth Mother is not benevolent. It’s also a fun, nifty stage thriller.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
For Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, this may be a harbinger of a “risk-off summer,” especially if it coincides with a yield-curve inversion and a breakdown in tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
As AI hardware companies gain, software groups fall, with a basket of European software stocks down 1.5% in an inversion of the sectors’ relationship in the last session.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The inversion of an augmented interval is diminished and of a diminished interval is augmented.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Speeds will reach 50 mph, and the coaster will boast five inversions that will take guests upside down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
"When different cichlid species interbred, entire inversions can be passed between them -- bringing along key survival traits, like adaptations to specific environments, speeding up the process of evolution," said Blumer.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Pollution spikes are common in the city of nearly 400,000, especially during thermal inversions when a layer of warm air sits above a layer of cold air, trapping smog over the mountain-ringed city.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
In winter, high air pollution from smog, temperature inversions and crop burning across the Indo-Gangetic plains produces light-scattering aerosols, which reduce sunshine hours.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
Inversions of augmented intervals are diminished, and inversions of diminished intervals are augmented.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Vocabulary lists containing inversion
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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