inversion
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Kris’ breakout movie was a high-concept inversion of “Psycho” told through the shower curtain’s POV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
The aim, from the start, was not to spotlight people but to illuminate architecture—an inversion of the usual transit instinct to flood everything with harsh brightness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
We will continue to watch the two front months for any sign of inversion.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
The distinction between the two “races” of flies by virtue of a single chromosomal inversion was the most dramatic example of genetic variation that any geneticist had ever seen in a natural population.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The various inversions will include a barrel roll, a zero-g roll and an overbanked stall turn, hinting at a heavily twisted track that will create drifts and swinging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
The Nursey album also points to remarkable inversions of gender dynamics.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
The study also documented frequent inversions, where hatchlings flipped onto their backs while trying to scale the seaweed.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 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
Vocabulary lists containing inversion
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Genetics - Middle School
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