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 Naqvi took these ideas and inverted them. — Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 This time, the agency was inverted. — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 That is inverted for the Lakers, with a lower overall age, but is higher in age per minutes. — David Troy, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Within the zār belief, those same histories are inverted. — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 The helicopter broke a water line for the building’s sprinkler system, then came to a stop inverted inside the building. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026 Pink started things literally inverted, with one of her famous aerial tricks to begin her opening number. — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026 The chic quarter-button front, preppy collar, and inverted back pleat add understated yet fashion-forward details, making this an easy, polished look prepared for whatever’s on the itinerary. — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026 In 2022 long-term acute care hospitals accounted for 56 percent of screening detections and ordinary acute care hospitals for 25; by 2024 the proportions had inverted, to 36 and 51. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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Two people were killed and another 20 people were injured when a coach bus carrying passengers crashed into other vehicles and flipped over a median into oncoming traffic late the night of June 29, authorities in New York said.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Two cars were severely damaged after a bus flipped over and crushed them on the Long Island Expressway.

— Christina Fan, CBS News, 30 June 2026

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On June 12, an Illinois appeals court reversed the $60 million judgment against Mead Johnson and sent the case back for a new trial.

— David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Journalists at the news giant have been anxious about the direction of the news operation ever since Warner reversed a decision to sell its streaming and studio assets to Netflix and instead packaged the whole company for Paramount.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 July 2026

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