flipped

past tense of flip
1
as in skimmed
to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner flip through this home decorating book to see if there's anything we could use

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2
as in reversed
to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing flip the coin over

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Recent Examples of flipped When a call is overturned, Baseball Savant measures the difference in run expectancy between the situation before the pitch/challenge and the situation after the call is flipped. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 As stocks fell, oil prices flipped between gains and losses but largely hovered around their highly elevated levels. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026 Now this is a story all about how the real Fresh Prince’s life got flipped, turned upside down. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 The team immediately flipped the advantage in a short best-of-three series by winning Game 1 against the Lynx in Target Center. — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026 This talk of expansion, which is more than just chatter at this point, essentially flipped within a three-month stretch dating back to CFP meetings around the national championship game last year in Miami. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Just a week later, Bonta flipped and announced a package of behavioral remedies. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026 Similarly, in 2021/22, there was a swing from concern about a collapse in retail demand with the onset of the pandemic to a scramble to secure inventory after the release of record amount of global stimulus flipped the consumer outlook. — Sj Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 Once, a driver went over in a box truck loaded with Toyota parts, flipped multiple times, fell a total of four hundred feet, and walked away with a broken pinkie. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
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  • Over the Fourth of July weekend, a series of storms skimmed the south of the city, pummeling Coney Island and the Rockaways with sand and sending beach umbrellas spinning like tops.
    — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The cream that has been skimmed and separated from the milk has about 36% to 40% milk fat.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • Meta, a week ago, rejected, then reversed course on an ad for Alex Gibney’s doc takedown Musk, and now a studio is about to weigh in on Meta.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Players are consistently held accountable when the roles are reversed.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
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  • Following the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated its passage and thumbed his nose at those who questioned or openly doubted its prospects.
    — John Parkinson, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Even games with anti-cheat that thumbed their nose at Linux and the Steam Deck are now supporting Windows on Arm, too.
    — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 1 June 2026
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  • The aides arranged press junkets, invented sources, and planted stories that brazenly inverted popular views.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • To-go containers were stored with the food contact surface facing up; containers were inverted.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2026
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  • As for the plane in question, this is a variant of the venerable F-16 and is a heavily modernized version featuring, among other features, APG-83 Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • GPTZero also scanned 300 of the roughly 20,000 submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and found more than 50 hallucinated citations.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Flipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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