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as in cute
making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred
made some flip comment about the marriage between the old man and the considerably younger woman
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Recent Examples of flip
Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
By contrast, the DOGE Dividend proposal in its current form would flip this logic on its head—deliberately steering money away from lower-income Americans on the assumption that wealthier recipients would be less likely to increase spending and thus avoid inflationary pressures.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Still, the dead of winter temps didn’t stop him from rocking a pair of flip flops.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Rangers catcher Kyle Higashioka challenged a call during Huff’s second plate appearance, flipping a ball to a strike.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
By contrast, the DOGE Dividend proposal in its current form would flip this logic on its head—deliberately steering money away from lower-income Americans on the assumption that wealthier recipients would be less likely to increase spending and thus avoid inflationary pressures.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
During the two-hour series premiere on Jan. 29, viewers are introduced to Christina’s contractor, Michael Lange, and her design partner, Kylie Wing, who step up to help her with a kitchen renovation for her flip property.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Still, the dead of winter temps didn’t stop him from rocking a pair of flip flops.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flip
Verb
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May is when the action really kicks off, with live music every Sunday, a Pride weekend May 17 and 18, and the semi-thawing of Lake Reveal, a high alpine lake that skiers and riders try to skim—and often sink into.—
Anna Fiorentino,
AFAR Media,
28 Feb. 2025
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The storm comes hours after a system that skimmed much of the same region with little precipitation landed harder in some parts of the East Coast.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Similarly, even if the United States lifts its sprawling set of export controls and asset freezes imposed on Russia since February 2022, its major trading partners will not necessarily reverse their own measures against Moscow.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
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The quarterly signals could be reversed next week as stocks rallied sharply on Friday.—
Tom Aspray,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Pair the bottoms with a cute bodysuit or match the top with skirts or shorts, and you're left with multiple outfits in one.—
Jennifer Vermeer,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Feb. 2025
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And the town of Brenham is filled with cute boutiques and restaurants.—
Cynthia Drake,
Southern Living,
23 Feb. 2025
Verb
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And in that instance, thumbs down might actually have meant spare the fellow, put your sword down.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2024
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Many thumbed their noses at the prospect of forgoing their advice and consent role, even for the president of their own party.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The decision to put Kreider in over Kyle Connor, who has 30 goals this year, did not end up looking like a wise one.—
Arthur Staple,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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Plunkett is not the first critic to trouble the popular conception of Frost as a wise woodsman dispensing comfort and inspiration.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.—
Beth Kindig,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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This neon green swimsuit is the epitome of all of these elements, with a playful cutout across the torso and a high-cut waist to flash some skin.—
Madison Yauger,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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As innocent and playful as most of the interactions between the fans were, Goggin felt the wider implications that the game carried seemed somewhat lost on his American counterparts.—
Dan Robson,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Flip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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