Thesaurus results for INVERTED

inverted

verb

past tense of invert

as in flipped

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 inverted 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 At Lacoste, the classic crocodile logo was inverted on polos, while Gucci’s Demna and Dries Van Noten’s Julian Klausner gave rugbys a bougie Euro spin. — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026 But, under the guise of this routine procedure, an extraordinary mechanism has been launched, which has completely inverted the structure of voter registration in India, and disenfranchised millions of voters. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026 To-go containers were stored with the food contact surface facing up; containers were inverted. — Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2026 Early twentieth-century regionalism, however, inverted this Europhilic aesthetic. — Literary Hub, 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 That gap matters far more now that the premiums have compressed, and in many cases inverted. — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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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

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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

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