Example Sentences
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It has also been a career of resilience, though Beaumont jokingly refers to her dad's speech at her wedding in which he used that word in inverted commas to mean "stubborn" instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
As a result, the system can generate trajectories that correspond to stretched, blurred, or inverted arrows of time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
Discovery — and inverted the entire meaning of that tradition to mark the adversarial relationship between the press and power.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
The markings anticipated the inverted red triangle that is a symbol of Hamas today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
“It stinks of Sport,” said Mordred in inverted commas, “and the Done Thing and the Best People. Let’s go to the garden.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
