PITCHPOLED Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

pitchpoled

verb

past tense of pitchpole

as in inverted

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The aides arranged press junkets, invented sources, and planted stories that brazenly inverted popular views.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
To-go containers were stored with the food contact surface facing up; containers were inverted.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2026

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The series follows the Canadian team’s historic run to the World Cup final, where they were ultimately toppled by host country England, going down 33-13 in front of a sellout crowd of 82,000 at Twickenham Stadium in South West London.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
The team with the third-lowest payroll in Major League Baseball had toppled the team with the third-highest payroll, on that night and in the division.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

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That debate, held in Atlanta, upended the presidential election.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Silbert founded the farm in 2020 with the idea of selling the produce to a friend’s restaurant, but when the pandemic shutdown upended those plans, the farm project shifted into an event space.

— Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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In February, the High Court ruled it unlawful and disproportionate, but the Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in June.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Last year, Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori ⁠challenged the ban and the High Court ruled in her favor in February, before the Court of Appeal overturned that decision in June.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

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