inversely
adverb
in·verse·ly
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Definition of inversely
1
: in an inverse order or manner
2
: in the manner of inverse variation
varies inversely
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Sudden atmospherically driven changes in water relations in adjacent kauri trees were very rapidly and inversely mirrored in the living stump's water status. — Fox News, "Strange 'superorganism' is keeping this 'vampire' tree alive," 26 July 2019 Sensors fitted to the two intact trees and the stump showed that the stump’s flow of sap and water ran inversely to that of the trees. — The Economist, "Tree stumps can live on indefinitely...," 25 July 2019 The intensity of belief on the right has begun to vary inversely with plausibility. — David Roberts, Vox, "The caravan “invasion” and America’s epistemic crisis," 2 Nov. 2018 Bond yields move inversely to prices, so if the price of a bond goes up, the yield goes down. — Anneken Tappe, CNN, "Treasury bond yields are at the lowest level since 2016. Here's what that means," 20 June 2019 Elekes showed that the number of distinct sums or products in a grid is inversely related to the number of intersections yielded by the point-line procedure. — Quanta Magazine, "How a Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers," 6 Feb. 2019 Treasury yields, which move inversely to bond prices, tend to increase when investors are confident about the economy, spurring them to rotate out of government securities and buy riskier assets instead. — John Detrixhe, Quartz, "Treasury yields are plunging, a sign investors are worried," 8 June 2019 The idea that a country’s religiosity and its GDP inversely correlate is not a new one. — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, "Study: most wealthy countries aren’t religious. Then there’s the US.," 1 Aug. 2018 Inverse relation The price of all commodities is inversely correlated to the value of the dollar. — Simon Constable, WSJ, "Emerging Markets Have a Dollar Problem," 3 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inversely.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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