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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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
Rather than expecting sports fans to gravitate toward traditional gallery programming, the Nelson-Atkins flipped the approach.
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Taylor Haught, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
After Democrats flipped two red seats in recent special elections, Republicans have worried that being too aggressive with a map could destabilize their odds.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
Slavensky, a former superintendent of Amador County Unified School District, is the second Democrat to try and beat Hoover, who flipped the seat from Democrat to Republican in 2022 and has since established a reputation as a moderate who brings bills with bipartisan support.
—Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
At a home near Nager’s, a RV was flipped on its side and still sitting in the same position two days later.
—Samuel O’Neal 27, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
Cora and his staff, many of whom were making dinner preparations Saturday night, had their worlds flipped upside down.
—Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
But the night before takeoff, everything was flipped upside down.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
The game flipped dramatically after Dodgers starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan left the game.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
That's where prior resistance flipped to support on the way up and where the pattern of higher lows begins to break down.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
Taylor Haught, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
After Democrats flipped two red seats in recent special elections, Republicans have worried that being too aggressive with a map could destabilize their odds.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
Slavensky, a former superintendent of Amador County Unified School District, is the second Democrat to try and beat Hoover, who flipped the seat from Democrat to Republican in 2022 and has since established a reputation as a moderate who brings bills with bipartisan support.
—Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
At a home near Nager’s, a RV was flipped on its side and still sitting in the same position two days later.
—Samuel O’Neal 27, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
Cora and his staff, many of whom were making dinner preparations Saturday night, had their worlds flipped upside down.
—Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
But the night before takeoff, everything was flipped upside down.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
The game flipped dramatically after Dodgers starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan left the game.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
That's where prior resistance flipped to support on the way up and where the pattern of higher lows begins to break down.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flipped
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Credentials can be lost, copied, skimmed, photographed, or forged.—
Alex Israel,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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This spectacular view of the yellow full moon was captured by Kirill Kudryavstev from the city of Frankfurt, Germany, as a Boeing 777 commercial jet skimmed across the bottom of the lunar disk, leaving atmospheric distortion in its wake.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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The Angels are tied for seventh in total challenges and eighth in calls reversed.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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But by mid-December, after public pushback, the council reversed its decision, voting unanimously to extend for six months the Friends of the Rose’s contract to operate the theater, with the condition that the nonprofit pay $5,000 per month toward the theater’s maintenance and utilities.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Emin’s masterpiece thumbed its nose at a tradition of recumbent feminine flesh on tousled white sheets (think Titian’s Venus of Urbino, Manet’s Olympia, or any number of bosomy Lucian Freud nudes).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Caleb Foster thumbed over his shoulder to move Cam Boozer.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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Within the zār belief, those same histories are inverted.—
Adam Pourahmadi,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
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Naqvi took these ideas and inverted them.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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According to a California audit last month which analyzed open network traffic across more than 7,600 popular websites scanned from California, over half (55%) of sites set advertising cookies even after users explicitly rejected them.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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Once in a while, black flats compress the space, framing a single character’s face, bathed in a bleaching white light, as if their vulnerabilities were being scanned by an MRI.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Flipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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