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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The toys were not purloined, kidnapped, auctioned by Sotheby's or flipped by greedy collectors on eBay.

— STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Just two years ago, Republicans flipped the 7th Congressional District, but only by a little over 4,000 votes.

— Dan Snyder, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

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The move, and his later waiving of sanctions, reversed years of American policy and raised alarm in Ukraine and Europe.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026
Although Flávio retained his lead in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Lula won their capitals, Brazil’s two largest cities and reversed the first-round result in the city of Rio.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026

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