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 Worse, the fragmentation of DNA in the ancient samples gives an imperfect record of which of those regulatory switches are to be flipped which way. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026 The Dodgers swept the Brewers in last year’s NLCS, but with Los Angeles injured and a year older, the script has flipped to this point. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026 Cignetti noted the protection call was actually flipped that night. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026 Lives turned upside down The Ortiz family’s life has been flipped upside down since the head of the household was detained. — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 San Francisco receiver Deebo Samuel took the ball from quarterback Brock Purdy but then flipped it to Jacob Cowing on a reverse. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026 Her choices for president and for Congress have flipped back and forth. — Eric Lau, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 Democrats flipped two Iowa state Senate seats in special elections last year to break the GOP’s veto-proof supermajority there. — Kevin Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 As stocks fell, oil prices flipped between gains and losses but largely hovered around their highly elevated levels. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flipped
  1. skimmed
  2. reversed
  3. thumbed
  4. inverted
  5. scanned
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  • For those who live in a city within Adams County or believe the card was skimmed in that city, please contact that jurisdiction.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of skimmed
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  • Police said the crash happened just before noon in the 100 block of West Mountain Avenue when the truck driven by Lemaster reversed out of a parking spot on Mountain Avenue and struck another vehicle.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • These changes would be enshrined in the law, as opposed to regulations that could more easily be reversed in the future, says NATHPO Executive Director Ira Matt, a citizen of the Salish Tribe.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of reversed
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  • 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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  • The reveal started off with the roadster climbing a ramp which eventually left it inverted.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The logic appears inverted, where value is paramount and suitability an afterthought.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of inverted
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  • Authorities install a chip that is scanned by machines along federal highways.
    — Steve Fisher Special Correspondent Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Researchers gathered 62 people who had never taken a psychedelic before, gave them 19 milligrams of psilocybin, a common psychedelic found in certain fungi, and scanned their brains.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of scanned

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“Flipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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