flipped

verb

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 The toys were not purloined, kidnapped, auctioned by Sotheby's or flipped by greedy collectors on eBay. — Steve Hendrix The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026 Just two years ago, Republicans flipped the 7th Congressional District, but only by a little over 4,000 votes. — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Preparing for the next generation of sky surveys The two simulations use the same cosmological model and non-Gaussian signal, but their initial phases are flipped. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026 Liberty was clinging to that pledge, the 5-foot-10, 195-pound do-everything playmaker flipped his commitment to Georgia this weekend. — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026 While the rest of the country flipped between Memphis, App State and Purdue, I was locked in the Ivy League battle of the year. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Hayes in November 2024 flipped his commitment from Nebraska to KU. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026 No day in Gaza is normal, but Friday stood out for its shouts of delight as athletes pulled trucks, flipped massive tires and heaved weights in a strength competition that drew cheering crowds. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 New homes have traditionally commanded a price premium over existing homes, but that relationship has flipped over the past two years. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flipped
  1. skimmed
  2. reversed
  3. thumbed
  4. inverted
  5. scanned
Verb
  • For those who live in a city within Adams County or believe the card was skimmed in that city, please contact that jurisdiction.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of skimmed
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  • Police said the crash happened just before noon in the 100 block of West Mountain Avenue when the truck driven by Lemaster reversed out of a parking spot on Mountain Avenue and struck another vehicle.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • These changes would be enshrined in the law, as opposed to regulations that could more easily be reversed in the future, says NATHPO Executive Director Ira Matt, a citizen of the Salish Tribe.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of reversed
Verb
  • 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
Definition of thumbed
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  • The reveal started off with the roadster climbing a ramp which eventually left it inverted.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The logic appears inverted, where value is paramount and suitability an afterthought.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of inverted
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  • Early Sunday morning, near the Place de la République, a part-time crossing guard named Joëlle, 71, scanned the wreckage along the Boulevard Voltaire from a bench, holding her shaggy shepherd mix, Pollux, on a leash.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Yet before the crows could be digitally designed, they were sculpted, and the character department built different parts of the crow — feathers, beaks, eyes and feet — to be scanned.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of scanned

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“Flipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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