Example Sentences

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That’s a way of inverting your intuitive, emotional response to a declining market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

While our population pyramid is inverting, people who reach age 65 are now expected to live for at least another 20 years.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

To waste your one good death,” he thinks, inverting Mary Oliver’s famous line about putting our one wild precious life to use.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Season 4 circles back to the first’s high notes, inverting nearly everything about it.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2024

It had been used for holding screws, but he tipped those out and wiped the inside with a rag before inverting the glass over it with the card still in place over the mouth.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman