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 Pitting towns against each other With two weeks to go before CRTPO plans to vote on the I-77 South project, several towns have already flipped. — Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026 Sage’s appointment has flipped that script For all those arrivals, there were departures as well. — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Each of us likely differs from it at millions of bases in our genome, and most of us probably carry some combinations of insertions, deletions, duplications, and flipped sequences. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 Prosecutors said the vehicle flipped 180 degrees, tearing the entire right side and most of the roof off. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Slicing across the pavement, the aircraft struck several vehicles – including one left flipped onto its side and twisted into an arc not unlike the tail fin logo – before sliding to a fiery stop just shy of a parking lot filled with dozens of cars. — Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026 The conversation soon flipped the question around, with customers wanting the hot dog but not necessarily the soda. — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Dolly Parton played on the speakers as Burley flipped through her photos. — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 Their relationship flipped in August 2019, when Jay-Z announced that Roc Nation, the entertainment company he co-founded, would partner with the NFL. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flipped
  1. skimmed
  2. reversed
  3. thumbed
  4. inverted
  5. scanned
Verb
  • 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
Definition of skimmed
Verb
  • This year, the federal court ruling in March that blocked Kennedy’s vaccine advisors also reversed the advisors’ vote for individual decision-making.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
  • For Nabokov, the former was an important piece of history occurring mainly at a distance while the latter was a permanent tragedy; for Brecht, the situation was almost exactly reversed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 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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  • To-go containers were stored with the food contact surface facing up; containers were inverted.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Both Bam and Giannis, especially Giannis, have thrived on those inverted [pick-and-rolls] when the guy screening for them is a shooter.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of inverted
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  • The holotype was one of the first specimens to be scanned once the lab was up and running in late 2024.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The teachers scanned their work and used AI to analyze how their handwriting could improve.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of scanned

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“Flipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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