How to Use inversion in a Sentence
inversion
noun- Inversion of the two words changes the meaning of the sentence.
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The steep drops don’t seem to affect me like the inversions do.
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023 -
The inversion of the yield curve also could hurt banks.
— Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022 -
As the wildfires burned on, and nights grew longer and colder, the inversions grew stronger.
— Nora Saks, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018 -
One of those flips, a corkscrew at 197 feet above the ground, sets a world record for highest inversion.
— Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019 -
That’s kind of a wild inversion of what our values are and what our track record is.
— Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020 -
The financial world has been atwitter about the inversion of the yield curve.
— Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019 -
More than a year of inversion in the yield curve between 2-year and 10-year Treasurys.
— Karen Langley, WSJ, 25 July 2023 -
For many Southerners, the arrival of Etheridge and his men was the inversion of that sight.
— New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022 -
If the launch speed wasn’t enough, Maxx Force has the world’s fastest inversion as passengers flip in the air at 60 mph.
— Nic Napier, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The Cardinals been an inversion of the Chiefs through the season thus far.
— Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2021 -
There was a strong capping inversion in place — a layer of warm air in place about a mile above the ground.
— Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 May 2018 -
Last week, the inversion on yields reached its widest level since the early 1980s.
— Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 -
The good news is that a winter storm is expected to break up the inversion next week.
— Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Jan. 2022 -
In May and June, cool, moist air gets trapped below that inversion.
— Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018 -
The inversion—which last reached these levels a decade ago—has caught traders and investors off guard.
— Sebastian Pellejero, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021 -
In a canny act of inversion, we, the ones watching, are winked at and ogled alongside her.
— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021 -
The storm will scour out the inversion and pollution in Utah’s valleys.
— Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021 -
And there’s a fascinating inversion of the film-noir trope of the femme fatale.
— Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022 -
This inversion is a key signal that a downturn may be on its way.
— Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 July 2019 -
But in the wind’s place has come an inversion that has trapped a thick layer of smoke over much of Douglas County.
— oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2020 -
Climbing to the top of the first loop, the train navigates a slow barrel roll at nearly 150 feet in the air that ranks as one of the world's tallest inversions.
— Brady MacDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018 -
And Kamala Harris' tax policies are, in fact, the inversion of that.
— CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024 -
The deeper the inversion of the curve, the closer the cycle is to its end, and, barring a soft landing, recession.
— James MacKintosh, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022 -
The inversion is limiting the normal mixing of the air mass.
— oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2020 -
The inversion of the Treasury yield curve suggests such an outcome.
— Joe Davis, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023 -
Remarkably, this is a perfect inversion of the way the parties were made up just 25 years ago.
— Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018 -
There will be no inversion in the deal announced Tuesday.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 June 2019 -
Typically, the spread between the 10-year and two-year Treasury notes is used to gauge this inversion.
— Frank Holmes, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 -
This is a complete inversion from before the debate, when bettors gave Walz a 70% chance of being declared the debate winner.
— Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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