Example Sentences

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When that relationship inverts, the market is saying something specific — that the “value of deliverability and physical security has overtaken the value of global exposure.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

It inverts the First Amendment’s core purpose: protecting speech that persuades, speech that matters, speech people actually hear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Because the thing that you love inverts on you.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

This paper estimates there are around 500 species being regularly traded in the MAT; 210 fish, and 296 inverts.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

To avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker