How to Use inversion in a Sentence

inversion

noun
  • Inversion of the two words changes the meaning of the sentence.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There will be no inversion in the deal announced Tuesday.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 June 2019
  • The train then climbs a second lift hill and navigates the same three inversions in reverse.
    Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • Utahns who live along the Wasatch Front are familiar with inversion — the smog that fouls the air during winter.
    Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In the larger sense the faith-shaming of Mrs. Pence exposes an inversion of tropes.
    William McGurn, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019
  • In an inversion of the Fight Club rule, people on Clubhouse do talk about Clubhouse.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The curve was also this flat a few times where no inversion or recession followed and stocks did well, such as in the mid-1990s.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
  • This is called a tax inversion and tends to occur more often when the government raises corporate tax rates.
    Mike Patton, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The inversion of the yield curve in March 2022 led many strategists to predict a significant economic slowdown based on historical trends.
    Garth Friesen, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024

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