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Effective releases usually utilize a strategy known as the inverted pyramid, which is written with the most important information and quotes first.

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  1. Turned in a contrary direction; turned upside down; reversed in order; hence, opposite; contrary. Such forms have left only their written representatives—“Your obedient servant,” “Your humble servant;” reserved for occasions when distance is to be maintained, and for this reason often having inverted meanings. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 394.
  2. Specifically— In heraldry, turned in the other way from what is usual: as, the hands inverted when the fingers point downward. Also invertant.
  3. In botany, opposed to the normal or usual position, as ovules attached to the apex of the ovary or its cells, or as flowers with the normally dorsal side ventral.
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  • Effective releases usually utilize a strategy known as the inverted pyramid, which is written with the most important information and quotes first. —  Paramus Post
  • I asked, for the inverted wash-basin which the British dignify by the name of helmet is the most uncomfortable form of headgear ever devised by man It's orders," he answered. —  Italy at War and the Allies in the West
  • *--The theory of psychic hermaphroditism presupposed that the sexual object of the inverted is the reverse of the normal. —  Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
  • In women, too, the sexual aims of the inverted are manifold, among which contact with the mucous membrane of the mouth seems to be preferred Conclusion. —  Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
  • He sat with his legs in the shape of the letter V inverted, his legs being forced to retain their position from the fact of three dishes of various dimensions being arranged between them in a diminuendo passage. —  Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
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