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Recent Examples of inversely
Bond yields move inversely to prices.
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Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
The Family Online Safety Institute reported that children’s screen time and parental control usage are inversely related.
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Maggie Anders,
Oc Register,
7 Apr. 2026
Doing so might be the result of social conditioning, making women more sensitive to emotional realities and comfortable expressing them — and, inversely, social conditioning making men less sensitive to emotional realities and more uncomfortable expressing them.
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Elissa Strauss,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportionate to how many new parts and steps there are.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for inversely
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
The Family Online Safety Institute reported that children’s screen time and parental control usage are inversely related.
—
Maggie Anders,
Oc Register,
7 Apr. 2026
Doing so might be the result of social conditioning, making women more sensitive to emotional realities and comfortable expressing them — and, inversely, social conditioning making men less sensitive to emotional realities and more uncomfortable expressing them.
—
Elissa Strauss,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportionate to how many new parts and steps there are.
—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for inversely
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inversely
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Hitters conversely are prisoners of their skill level to a much larger degree, so smaller sample sizes don’t have as much predictive juice.
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Tests can help identify the excellent students attending mediocre high schools and, conversely, the mediocre students attending excellent schools.
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The fluctuations were concentrated near a boundary where oppositely directed magnetic fields meet — a region where scientists suspect magnetic stress builds up before flares.
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Electrostatic forces occur when oppositely charged particles interact with each other.
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“Inversely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inversely. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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