flipped

past tense of flip
1
as in skimmed
to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner flip through this home decorating book to see if there's anything we could use

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2
as in reversed
to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing flip the coin over

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Recent Examples of flipped Just a week later, Bonta flipped and announced a package of behavioral remedies. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026 Similarly, in 2021/22, there was a swing from concern about a collapse in retail demand with the onset of the pandemic to a scramble to secure inventory after the release of record amount of global stimulus flipped the consumer outlook. — Sj Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 Once, a driver went over in a box truck loaded with Toyota parts, flipped multiple times, fell a total of four hundred feet, and walked away with a broken pinkie. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 While the Starship continued toward space, the Super Heavy booster flipped around, restarted its engines to reverse course and then flew itself back to the Texas Gulf Coast. — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 But the game flipped to the Bulldogs in the fourth as their mix of run and pass settled in. — Pj Green september 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 Council members Malcolm Graham and Joi Mayo, whose west Charlotte districts fall in the interstate’s footprint, flipped their votes in favor. — Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026 McDaniel flipped Herbert's shotgun stance, gave him an offense built to have Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle but lacks both, and isn't known for making adjustments. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Plenty of Eighties folks heard this song, or saw the video, and flipped for their new favorite band. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
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  • Over the Fourth of July weekend, a series of storms skimmed the south of the city, pummeling Coney Island and the Rockaways with sand and sending beach umbrellas spinning like tops.
    — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The cream that has been skimmed and separated from the milk has about 36% to 40% milk fat.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • Once the stimulation was terminated, the effect rapidly reversed and repetitive behavior resumed.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Half of the keto participants reversed their prediabetes, whereas only 29% in the Mediterranean group and 7% in the plant-forward diet had that result.
    — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, HEALTH, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • Following the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated its passage and thumbed his nose at those who questioned or openly doubted its prospects.
    — John Parkinson, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Even games with anti-cheat that thumbed their nose at Linux and the Steam Deck are now supporting Windows on Arm, too.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 1 June 2026
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  • The aides arranged press junkets, invented sources, and planted stories that brazenly inverted popular views.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • To-go containers were stored with the food contact surface facing up; containers were inverted.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2026
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  • The audience is interacting with an object that had been scanned, that had been corrupted in some way.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Today, guests who spring for the front-of-the-line Lightning Lane pass as well as individual access to Rise of the Resistance can expect to pay around an extra $65 per person once having their tickets scanned.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Flipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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