as in flips
to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing
if you invert the coin, there's a picture of a buffalo on the back
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Recent Examples of inverts
Repealing them wholesale to generate 28 more IPOs per year, while potentially widening information asymmetry across the full $69 trillion market, inverts the cost-benefit ratio by an order of magnitude.
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Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
The Iran war inverts the conditions of that lesson.
—Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
The Peepshow, which inverts the classic true crime structure, is masterful.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
Where their debut roars, jabbing with hooks, Two Wheels Move the Soul instead inverts the noise until the sound becomes pillowy and comforting.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2026
An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.
—Yook Jihun, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
After half-time, the picture inverts.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
This inverts journalism’s historical role.
—Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
The design, Hing said, intentionally inverts the traditional characterization of the yeak as an antagonistic or even demonic force.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
The Iran war inverts the conditions of that lesson.
—Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
The Peepshow, which inverts the classic true crime structure, is masterful.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
Where their debut roars, jabbing with hooks, Two Wheels Move the Soul instead inverts the noise until the sound becomes pillowy and comforting.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2026
An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.
—Yook Jihun, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
After half-time, the picture inverts.
—Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
This inverts journalism’s historical role.
—Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
The design, Hing said, intentionally inverts the traditional characterization of the yeak as an antagonistic or even demonic force.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inverts
Verb
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While the outgoing bZ4X felt sluggish, the bZ flips the script with brisk acceleration in both single- and dual-motor configurations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
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The Lindy Hoppers challenged each other to greater and greater feats of virtuosity, flips and slides and airborne moves in which one partner tossed the other high into the air, daring gravity.—
Marina Harss,
New Yorker,
3 June 2026
Verb
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Regulators and reporters should stop describing USAT as Tether entering compliance, because that framing reverses the strategy.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The next 30 years will test whether this trend accelerates or reverses.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
28 May 2026
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“Inverts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inverts. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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