Example Sentences

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Two days in a row of this and the signal will flip from sell to buy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Goodspeed travels back to the 18th century to downturns in the U.S. and the United Kingdom to explain why the common narrative that one seismic shock will flip an economy on its head is wrong.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

They’ll say they’ve been promised that the state will flip one too many times, so don’t you dare try to get their hopes up again.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2025

In the future, fans will flip over Kershaw’s baseball card — or, more likely, look up his Baseball Reference page — and learn that the greatest starter of his generation finished his career in relief.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

The center of balance is so narrow that if jockeys shift only slightly rearward, they will flip right off the back.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand